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Volume IX Spring, 1951 Number |
CONTENTS
Editor’s Page p. 5
A System of Ethics by Edwin T. Mitchell = J. M. McEachran p. 9
I Have Loved England Nancy Thompson p. 15
Down the Mackenzie on the Sant’anna Brother Ansbert p. 18
Acknowledgements p. 26
The Historic Shudder E. P. Scarlete p. 27
The Rutherford Library Edith Park p. 34
The Cathedral R. J. Lang p. 37
February 17, 1951 (Alumm Council Meeting) p. 39
Books of Our Own p. 43
Whaiskeyjack (Section devoted to Friends) p. 47
Deadlines Myrtle P. Hartroft p. 38
Chipmunk (News of the University) p. 49
Alumni Notes p. 55
News from the Branches p. 59
Spring Myrtle P. Hartroft p. 60
New Addresses p. 61
Thy Victory Myrtle P. Hartroft p. 62

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The Editor’s Page

As we sat in on an otganization meeting of a new alumni club in Peace River,
Alberta, not many weeks ago, and talked interminably about the old Alma Mater,
until our hostess in despair pushed a dish of tea and a tempting piece of crumbly
cake into our rather inadequate lap, we couldn’t help thinking how correct Richard
L. Evans was when he said recently,

Alumni never live down their school, and a school never lives down its alumni.

By the way, Richard Evans is president of the University of Utah Alumni
Association and a member of that University’s Board of Regents. Many readers
of The New Trail have heard him on the coast to coast programme with the Salt
Lake Tabernacle Choir and Organ, presented each Sunday by the Columbia
Broadcasting System at 11:30 E.S.T. He is the writer, the producer and “the
voice”.

But to continue—we couldn’t help but notice that every person at that meeting
had the Alberta label on him in several places. Unmistakable! They were teach-
ers, professional men, business men, housewives, musicians, and good cooks. Fot
the latter category we can unequivocably vouch, but everyone knew and felt
deeply that his most salient asset was his connection with the University of
Alberta.

Strange to say, nobody asked the old shop-worn questions, “Why should we
form another alumni branch? What good will it do? Why take on more re-
sponsibilities, economic and social, to add to our already too full daily pro-
gramme?” No, we didn’t have to bring up any heavy artillery. We didn’t even
get a chance to argue in favour. We should have liked to give them this
opinion from the pen of T. Hawley Tapping, general secretary of the American
Alumni Association:

An alumni club 1s largely inevitable and results from that great American desire to
organize and promote. A club really has only three functions—to be of service to
the individual alumnus by offering him social and professional contacts, happy
friendships with folks who have with him a common denominator of understanding:
to be of assistance to the University or rather to alma mater, in any one of numerous
ways such as work in the Alumm Association, gifts and aggressive attention to its
needs and to its public relations activities: and lastly to be of service to the com-
munity, acting as educated men and women should act for the advancement of
education, higher cultural standings and unified support of worth-while civic
matters.

Or we should have liked to quote to them Charles W. Cole, president of
Amherst:

Alumni loyalty alone can preserve the freedom of American education.

We are inclined to think that that statement will bear some repeating, and we
might have added this comment on it by Mr. Evans (mentioned above) :
... if the statement of President Cole of Amherst is wholly or even partly true, it is

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a side with which we must be critically concerned 1f the things that mean the most to
most of us are to survive. ,

Of course, “education” alone won’t do it. It will take strong moral fibre,
personal character and courage and a proper appreciation of spiritual values. But
it is still true that “man cannot be saved in ignorance”—and neither can freedom.

But besides these critical considerations, there are many more essential reasons
why alumni should and must have a continuing and active and organized interest in
their alma mater. The present has little meaning except in terms of the past and the
future. Anything that 1s only for “nght now” 1s all over “right now”. Traditions,
culture, countries, learning, life, are all integrally a part of something that has gone
before and something that 1s yet to come.

No generation of students (or of citizens) 1s sufficient unto itself. A great
school is what it is because of its past and because of its future—as well as because
of its present. The pictures on the wall, the trophies in the case, the faces and
photographs of old friends either are or will become time-mellowed traditions—or
they aren’t much of anything at all.

Now, perhaps you call yourself a “practical person” (we all do, Mr. Evans)
and perhaps you won’t want to pay a price in effort and activity or in legal iender
merely for memories and trophies and traditions and for old friends and old faces.
If this 1s your thinking, let’s put it in another way—a “practical way”—especially for
you. Let’s put it like this: You carry a label with you for the rest of your life—but
it doesn’t matter how good your school was, 1f 1t 1s now dechning and decrepit your
“label” has less and less lustre.

Alumnm: never live down their school and a school never lives down its alumni.
You and your alma mater are in this together—and letting her run downhill 1s simpl
y' 8 & y
permitting one of your priceless assets .o depreciate.

We think that this is neatly put—not that our alma mater is running down-
hill—far from it. But such argument is good ammunition when we run up
against the alumni who say, “Why should we?”

But as we stated before, we didn’t get a chance to say any of all this to the
Peace River alumni. They seemed to sense the profound truth of it all without
having it repeated to them.

Not that we felt thwarted—alumnors are generally considered to be notorious
talkers. On the contrary it was almost exhilarating to find alumni who sensed
and accepted the truth of what we would have said if we had had a reason for
saying it.

We wonder if all our alumni are like that. We wonder about all those hundreds
of graduates in and around the biggish cities like Edmonton and Calgary. We
wonder sometimes if these latter people, so busy with oil and real estate and
houses and families and making money and social busy-ness are not allowing one
of their “priceless assets to depreciate.”

Well, anyway, it was a grand evening. We felt proud that we ourself bear the
Alberta stamp, and we hope it shows!

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A System of Ethics by Edwin T. Mitchell

J. M. MacEacHran
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Alberta

Professor Edwin T. Mitchell of the University of Texas has kindly presented
me with a copy of his System of Ethics which has recently been published by
Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York. As this publication is, in my judgment, the
most systematic and thoroughgoing statement up to date of the philosophy known
as Meliorism which presents a theoretical-practical approach to ethical and social
problems, I have thought that a brief sketch of the career and philosophy of the
author, who was a member of the first graduating class of the University of
Alberta, might be of special interest to the readers of The New Trail. As Pro-
fessor Mitchell has often spoken with appreciation of the student-professor relation
which has continued to exist between himself and myself since his student days, I
hope I may be pardoned for interjecting something of that relationship in the
review which follows.

Professor Mitchell was born in Grey County, Ontario, in 1889. The family
moved to the West in 1889 and travelled by wagon from Calgary to Edmonton
one year ahead of the C. and E. Railroad. Six miles from the town of Edmonton,
the father took up a homestead which, with its subsequent additions, still remains
in the possession of the family. After passing the Public School Leaving Examin-
ations at Belmont School, young Mitchell attended the Edmonton High School.
The late Dr. John Ross, who became the second Deputy Minister of Education,
was the first and then the only teacher. His influence as a teacher and later as a
warm personal friend made a deep impression upon Mitchell and inspired him to
adopt education as a professional career. After completing his teacher-training
in Regina Normal School in 1904, he taught in rural schools for three years, during
which time he studied by himself Latin and Greek for matriculation. He then
entered Queen’s University where he completed the courses of the first year. None
of these were on philosophy, but, during the year, he read Dyde’s Translation of
Plato’s Theaetetus, which he borrowed from a fellow-student: in this book he
found his taste for philosophy.

Mitchell entered the University of Alberta in 1909 as a sophomore and gradu-
ated with the class of 12 with honors in philosophy. He remained an additional
year acting as assistant in philosophy and taking graduate studies in philosophy
and psychology. He received the degree of M.A. in the spring of 1913, presenting
as a thesis, Bergson’s Theory of Memory. As a result of the depression and the

To alumni of the University of Alberta who have graduated not too recently Dr J M
MacEachran needs no introduction But for those who have received thier parchments within
the past five years and who will be interested in A System of Ethics by Edwin T. Mitchell, we
rnight say that Dr MacEachran was head of the Department of Philosophy at the University
of Alberta from 1909 to 1945 and also provost from 1912 to 1945 Dr MacEachran in his
article tells all about one of our distinguished graduates, Professor Edwin T Mitchell, ‘12.

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loss of his savings, he was forced to give up his plans to enter Harvard. For the
next seven yeats he devoted himself to the teaching profession, serving as Principal
of the Macleod High School (1913-16), Principal of the Olds School (1916-18)
and Inspector of Schools in the Chinook Inspectorate (1918-1920). He has never
regretted the experience of these years. He married Decima Robinson in 1915.
She received her M.Sc. degree from the University of Alberta in 1912, and, up
till the time of her marriage, was assistant in the Department of Mathematics. To
Mrs. Mitchell the System of Ethics is dedicated. There is one daughter, Joyce
Margaret.

Looking back on the career of Mitchell in the University of Alberta, I remem-
ber him as a first-rank student in all subjects which, during the early years, I
was expected, with becoming modesty, to profess—philosophy, psychology, edu-
cation and history. He was always most painstaking and thorough in his work
and I remember replying to an inquiry from the president of one of the larger
American universities to the effect that “as a student Mitchell always completed
his assignments in a manner, in matter and form, approximating perfection—
even down to the handwriting.” I believe that my colleagues of those days who
had Mitchell in their courses would agree that this was no exaggerated estimate
of the quality of his studentship, and it is now specially interesting in view of his
rather trenchant criticism, in his System of Ethics of “perfectionism” as a philo-
sophical and literary ideal. I also remember Mitchell as one of the most con-
scientious members of the first House Committee whose reputedly rigid standards
of discipline inspired the song, now, unfortunately, like the other original cheerful
melodies of those days, no longer heard within the halls: “We'll hang the House
Committee by their little string of rules”.

In 1920 Mitchell entered the Graduate School of the University of Chicago.
John Dewey, who had for several years headed the Departments of Philosophy
and Education in that university, had left a strong impress upon the thinking of
those departments. He, along with William James, had developed what seemed
to their enthusiastic admirers and followers to be a brand new philosophy. James,
however, termed it “A new name for some old ways of thinking” and called it
Pragmatism. It had its origin in an article published by Charles Pierce in the
Popular Science Monthly in 1878, entitled How to Make Our Ideas Clear. The
method was a simple one: “Mr. Pierce, after pointing out that our beliefs are
really rules for action, said that, to develop a thought’s meaning, we need only
determine what conduct it is fitted to produce: that conduct is for us its sole
significance.” (Pragmatism, p. 46.) Developed and expanded in the brilliant
popular writings of James and in the humanistic psychology and logic of Dewey.
this philosophy now aspired to represent the practical progressive spirit of the great
American Nation.

When Mitchell entered the University of Chicago, Professor Tufts, a brilliant

scholar and teacher who had formerly cooperated with Dewey on a textbook on
ethics, made his own special contribution to the new movement. (Dewey had

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some years before gone to Columbia.) Professor Mead, in his teachings in social
psychology, also made notable contributions in extending its scope. Professor
Mitchell who studied under both these men, however, writes me that, though he
had a very high regard for his professors he was “inclined to hold aloof from the
somewhat crusading spirit of the Chicago brand of pragmatism. I think,” he
continues. “your lectures on pragmatism converted me before I entered Chicago.
Righty or wrongly I had the impression that your own position had been strongly
modified by James’ pragmatism. That is, I thought that your philosophy might be
labelled ‘dynamic idealism’ as opposed to the ‘absolute idealism’ then dominant.”

Professor Mitchell’s remarks in regard to the influence of my own teaching at
first occasioned some surprise. In the first place, I had, in 1910, published a
monograph on pragmatism which was termed by one of my German professors
“a rather devastating criticism” of that philosophy. In the second place, I am
afraid I had never realized that my own brand of philosophy could be cast in any
definite form. I had often been asked by students to state in a few words my
own views on certain ultimate problems, but, for reasons which are very obvious
to any teacher of philosophy, I usually sought to circumvent the apparent interest
of the student by asking him first to state his own views, which, even if expressed
in a floundering way, at least formed the basis of an interesting and profitable
discussion. As to my own personal views, I have never been able to regard any
conclusions at which I may at any time have arrived as final and beyond the
possibility of further criticism and remodelling. And even if I had succeeded in
formulating ideas which I regarded as representing my own personal convictions,
I should have hesitated to prescribe them as suitable nourishment for a budding
thinker. This is because a statement of a philosophical point of view in a few
words, however well chosen, is apt to be too easily accepted as authoritative on
the one hand, or misinterpreted and misunderstood on the other; and, furthermore,
one would always hesitate to expose one’s most intimate and most cherished ideas
to the danger of becoming commonplace and dreary through the constant repeti-
tion on the innumerable examination-papers and essays that one is under the
necessity of reading during each session. Like Socrates, I have always been per-
suaded that it was the function of the teacher not to provide the student with a
diet of ready made ideas but to tempt his taste along the lines of reading and
thinking, which would encourage him to develop his own philosophy of life and
thus in the critical and reconstructive activity of his own mind to find himself in
the world about him. And so, if as a teacher I have in any way influenced the
thinking and the career of Professor Mitchell, I would like to feel that ic has been
along these lines which are everywhere obvious in his System of Ethics.

Mitchell graduated with his Ph.D. in 1923. His thesis was: Modern Theories
of the Nature and Function of Ideas. In the fall of the same year, he was ap-
pointed assistant professor of philosophy in the University of Texas and in 1934
he rose to the rank of professor. His work is now mainly teaching and research
in the Graduate School. He served as secretary for three years of the Western

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Division of the American Philosophical Association and in 1936 was appointed its
president. His presidential address, delivered in 1937 was entitled Social Ideals
and the Law. He was also instrumental in organizing the Southwestern Philo-
sophical Conference in which he has held the main offices and presented almost
annual papers. He has beeh a regular contributor to American philosophical
publications, among which may be mentioned the article on Logic in the National
Encyclopedia, published by Colliers, and an article on a Cooperative Study on
Values, published by the Columbia Press in 1949. He has lectured in several
American universities as visiting professor, exchange professor and summer-session
lecturer. He lectured at one summer session in the University of British Columbia,
and at three summer sessions in the University of Alberta.

The main motif that pervades the System of Ethics is the doctrine of
Meliorism. This term is derived from the Latin “melior” meaning “better”, the
comparative of the Latin “bonus” meaning “good”. There is no superlative
“optimus” or “best” to serve as an absolute standard of judgment as idealists
from Plato on have usually supposed. Meliorism is the general doctrine of
Pragmatism applied to the theory of ethical and social values. All such values,
it maintains, are purely relative. None are absolute. There are only “better” and
“worse” and all such gradations are determined by their pragmatic or practical
significance in the context of human experience as a whole. Professor Mitchell
speaks with gratitude of the helpful cooperation of his philosophical colleague,
Professor Brogan, now dean of the Graduate School in the University of Texas.
Professor Brogan had taken the doctrine of Meliorism, popularly stated in James’
Pragmatism, and subjected it to logical treatment. Following the assumption of
Whitehead and Russell in their Principia Mathematica that relations are not
mental constructions, as idealists had maintained, but genuine aspects of experi-
ence, i.e., realities in their own right, Brogan applied the method of the logic of
relations to the problem of value, which he held to be basically a problem of
relation. Thus “all the so-called value qualities, good and bad, right and wrong,
beautiful and ugly, and the rest, can be logically analysed into, and defined by,
the relation of betterness.” (An excellent summary of Brogan’s position is con-
tained in the Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of Philosophy, pp.
308-314).

While Professor Mitchell has followed the realistic method of logical analysis
of Professor Brogan, his development and application of the principles involved
are his own original contribution to the philosophy of Meliorism. This consists
in his attempt to bring together Brogan’s realistic analyses and Mead’s behaviourism
—an attempt in which he adds that he has not been “entirely uninfluenced by the
original stratum of idealism” (System WIII-[X). Beginning, accordingly, with
the logically unanalysible principle that the intrinsically good is “that whose
existence is better than its non-existence” (p. 103), he defines ethics or moral
philosophy as “the systematic investigation and discourse about the better and the
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and nature, or mind and the world order” and arrives at this conclusion: “There
is one over-all test of the worth of a life, and that is: Does one’s life leave the
universe as a whole better than it would have been without that life? But, since
the total value of the universe is hard to weigh in the scales, the practical measure
is: Does the individual’s life leave his sphere of activity better or worse than if he
had never been born? Even that, one says, is hard to weigh. Quite so. Then let
a person make his life so obviously worthy that there can be no question” (XIII).

The System of Ethics consists of two parts. The first part (330 pages) is
entitled “A Theory of Ethics”. The first four chapters are devoted to a discussion
of the shortcomings of custom and tradition, the voice of conscience, the law of
the land and religion. The fifth chapter deals with “What Mankind finds good”,
and arrives at the principle above stated: “The good is that whose existence is
better than its non-existence’—the undefined term “better than” being “irreducible
at the ethical level of discourse” (p. 103). The next three chapters deal respec-
tively with “Meliorism and its Rivals”, “Right and Wrong” and “Moral Method”.
Chapters IX to XIV are taken up with the application of the melioristic principle
to certain important practical problems—Work and Leisure as Ethical Concepts,
Social Justice and the Health of the Worker, The Ideal and the Real in Marriage
and Home, Means and Ends in Labour Organizations, Freedom and Responsi-
bility as Applied to Corporations and Patriotism and Humanity. Part II (212
pages) is devoted to an outline of the main ethical systems from the Sophists co
Nietzsche.

The System of Ethics was designed to serve as a text-book for a course in
elementary ethics. It will, however, I believe, be found very interesting and
thought-provoking for the general reader in these days of confused thinking and
militant ideologies. I feel certain that a glance at the clear compact statement of
the method and conclusions contained in the introduction will tempt the reader to
follow the argument wherever it leads. As a text-book, it is admirably adapted to
the needs of teachers and students in ethics for the following reasons: it is written
in a clear and fluid style, free from all unnecessary embellishments; each chapter
is followed by a brief summary of the argument and conclusions reached, together
with a number of well-chosen topics for discussion and a carefully selected bibli-
ography; the historical treatment is well and accurately presented and is of special
value on account of the numerous references throughout in the discussions of
Part I; above all, the book represents a definite point of departure for the discus-
sion of ethical and social problems and throughout offers many possibilities of
criticism. It may thus be used by the instructor to great advantage in training the
student in the art of philosophical criticism and reconstruction. Professor Mitchell
is himself well aware of these possibilities. There are, he fully recognizes, “other
pathways of thought” which “will serve to suggest criticism, or, perhaps, confirm-
ation of the method developed in the text-book. Let the student study all of them
and construct his own philosophy of life” (XVIII).

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I regret that space makes it impossible to enter ino a fuller discussion of
Professor Mitchell’s Meliorism and an attempt to evaluate it. I can only say at
present that, while I believe that his doctrine of “betterness” is “good”, I am still
so old-fashioned as to feel that, in spite of my critical attitude to the Absolute
Idealism of the eminent English philosopher, F. H. Bradley, which as a student
he rightly surmised, the “pathway” of “dynamical idealism” which he attributes to
his first teacher of philosophy is “better”. This is because, like Socrates of old, I
still believe that philosophy can never stop short of that persistent aspiration,
characteristic of his Platonic followers, somehow or other to envisage “the best”
as a principle immanent in and directive of the course of thought and world events.

If the editor can spare me the space, I shall be glad to state something of that
point of view in a subsequent number of The New Trail.

The editor, on behalf of the alumni of the University of Alberta, is
happy to offer congratulations to two of our number who have received
promotions at our Alma Mater. Miss Maimie Simpson 22, ’25 and 730,
formerly associate professor of education, adviser to women students and
warden of Pembina Hall, is still associate professor, warden of Pembina, but
now she is to be addressed as the Dean of Women. Dr. A. G. McCalla ’29
and ’30, who has been for some time professor of plant science in the Faculty
of Agriculture, has been named Dean of Agriculture.

Alumni everywhere will view with satisfaction the recognition accorded
to these outstanding members of their ranks.

Congratulations are in order, too, to Professor F, M. Salter and to Dr.
J. W. Macgregor. Professor Salter is the new head of the Department of
English. Readers of The New Tratl will be pleased to learn of the ad-
vancement of their own editor of “Whiskeyjack”. Dr. Macgregor ’26 and
°30 will succeed Dr. J. J. Ower as head of the Department of Pathology.
Dr. Ower will retire from this post next August. In addition, Dr. Mac-
gregor will be provincial pathologist in the Provincial Laboratory of Public
Health.

Have you sent your new address to the alumni office?

“I Have Loved England ”

By Nancy THompson

When people ask me what was the high light of my visit to England, I am
rather taken aback. How can I choose a “high light” from among all the multiple
impressions of beauty and historic interest in the counties I visited—the high windy
down of Sussex, its chalk cliffs, stony beaches, ancient castles and lovely wooded
hills; the red soil and red sandstone cliffs of Devon; the stone cottages, black
rocks and dashing seas of Cornwall; Lincolnshire, parts of it flatter than the flattest
prairie; and Yorkshire with its high plateaus and windy moors? The variety of
landscape within just a few miles, the astonishing number of hills, and the wide
vistas seen from the heights of land were things for which I was somehow not
prepared.

And yet, perhaps the greatest pleasure I found in England was to see and hear
and experience things that were familiar to me, because of the English poets. But
now I need not use my imagination; there before me was the land of the poets
themselves; this is what they had meant.

About the woodlands I will go,
To see the cherry hung with snow.

We were too late for the cherry tree blossoms, but the may, the hawthorn, was
in full bloom-—hedges of it between pastureland and wheatlands; single trees in
gardens and below the high crowns of hills; white masses of bloom in a valley
leading to the water where we heard “the song of blossoms and the old chant of
the sea.”

At Watersmeet, in North Devon, between Lynton and Lynmouth, we stopped

... to halt at the chattering brook, in the tall green fern at the brink,
Where the harebell grows and the gorse, and the foxgloves purple and white.

Then, when our coach party (on a sight-seeing bus trip) stopped in the Lorna
Doone Country, looking down on the village of Oare and on the winding river
far below, we heard

the noise of the lambs at play, and the dear wild cry of the birds.

I suppose everyone going to England would wish to hear three birds famous in
song and story: the cuckoo, the lark, and the nightingale. On the very first
morning of our sojourn, we heard at five o’clock the cuckoo’s song. Its register
was much lower than I had thought—almost as low as I could whistle in imitation
of its sweet-toned “cuckoo, cuckoo.” About the first week in June the cuckoo’s
song broke. ‘“Cuck-cuck-a-doo” it called; and a few days later it was silent. I
never saw a cuckoo close at hand.

Nancy Thompson, ‘44, ts one of the instructors at the Correspondence Branch, Depart-
ment of Education, Edmonton We are happy to acknowledge permission to reprint from the
Editor of the Civil Service Bulletin, Edmonton, in which Miss Thompson‘s article appeared
in the March 1951 issue with the title This Precious Stone Set in a Silver Sea.

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I remembered when I heard the skylark so often on our downland rambles that
Sussex was Shelley’s home county; he must have known them well as a child. But
there are few places in the British Isles where the larks may not be heard. They
seem to like the grassy open spaces. As we walked over the down to the cliffs
edge and the sea, the larks sprang up from the valley below, rising with fluttering
motion, sometimes keeping to one place as they beat their wings against a strong
seaward breeze, poised like little helicopters, and singing their magical trilling
song, the beauty of which is partly in its unendingness.
Higher still and higher,
From the earth thou springest
Like a cloud of fire;
The blue deep thou wingest
And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.

I don’t know why, but I had never realized that the saying “Up with the lark”
meant the skylark, until a gardener told me so. These are the larks that, in
Flanders, “still bravely singing fly, scarce heard amid the guns below.” Perhaps,
at first, one is just a little disappointed in its song; after hearing Galli Curci’s
“The Lark” one may be expecting a human, flute-like quality to its song, and of
course it is not like that. At Carter’s Bar, where we crossed the Border between
England and Scotland, skylarks were singing. I told a fellow Canadian what
they were, and she said, “Why it can’t be; it isn’t as pretty a song as our meadow
lark’s, in Western Canada.” “At least it’s more than six notes long though,”
I replied, as I followed the sound, straining to watch for the moment when the
speck should disappear, and the sound would come floating down from “heaven’s
gate.”

The nightingale’s song was almost over when we arrived in England, but I
enjoyed walking in an ancient wood called Abbotswood where I was told we
might hear the nightingale. We had taken a local double-decker bus a few miles
along a highroad leading to Eastbourne, and “alighted” as they say, where we
could enter the forest.

Very old are the woods,

And the buds that break
Out of the briar’s boughs

When the March winds wake,
So old with their beauty are...

The air was fragrant with honeysuckle this warm June night. We passed
deeper and deeper into shadow, and the roar of traffic behind us was gone com-
pletely. I expected at any moment to come on fairies dancing in a ring. “Listen,”
my companion said. “He’s beginning.” We heard four long notes. Was I to
hear the

... light-winged Dryad of the trees
In some melodious plot

Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
Singing of summer in full-throated ease?

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“Darkling I listen.” But no more sounds came except a sleepy twittering

from a thrush or blackbird.

“When the nightingale sings, all the other birds seem to stop their songs to
listen,” my cousin said softly. We waited again. No more was heard, and we
went home disappointed.

But next morning, in the blaze of noon, I walked through wide acres of bush-
land; and this time, though I had no one to verify my opinion, I am sure I heard
the nightingale—the four long sweet notes, and then all the varieties of syllables
and sounds that the poets have tried to capture for us. Yes, there, unmistakably
was the “jug-jug-jug” sound; and then marvelous whistlings and trills. The
song was a little tentative, as if the nightingale were waiting for a reply. I crept
closer and closer to the willow bush where the sound came from; and after a time
a little insignificant brown bird flew away.

... the plaintive anthem fades
Past the near meadows, over the still stream,

Up the hill-side; and now ’tis buried deep
In the next valley glades.

“England’s green and pleasant land” will be forever remembered; and so too
will her seashore.
The sea is calm tonight—
... the cliffs of England stand
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
... you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand.
. . now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar.

This, to me, is Hastings, in Sussex. Padstow, a tiny fishing village in Corn-
wall from which we walked to see the full rush of the Atlantic, reminded me of
snatches from “Crossing the Bar”: “Sunset, and evening star”; and “such a tide as
moving seems asleep,” as we watched the creeping onward motion of the tide into
that landlocked bay. And at Westward Ho, below the Kipling Cliffs,

Now the great winds shoreward blow,
Now the salt tides seaward flow,

Now the wild white horses play,
Champ and chafe and toss in the spray,

and here we heard “the league-long roller thundering on the reef.”

There are many more things I want to see in England when I return—
“London Snow” and “Bredon Hill”; Porlock, and Tintern Abbey; daffodils at
Ullswater and skating on the English lakes; and perhaps best of all,

Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

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Down the Mackenzie on the Sant’anna

By BrotrHer ANSBERT

From Fort Smith to Tuktoyaktuk on the mission boat, Sant’anna, two
thousand miles of adventure in Canada’s vast northlands, is an experience that
can hardly be duplicated by any other tourist attraction on the continent. The
lavishness of nature in the unbounded landscape, the breath-taking pageantry of
the Arctic sky with a midnight sun, the sense of fellowship with people of another
civilization, all tend to give the traveller that “away from it all” feeling that is
so stimulating to the spirit.

Some years ago when passenger boats were still operating on the Mackenzie,
a trip to the Arctic would have been a simple matter; but the passenger boats
have ceased to operate, and the boats engaged in commercial transportation are
not supposed to carry passengers. A happy solution was found to my problem
when Bishop Trocellier of the Mackenzie Vicariate extended a kind invitation
for me to accompany the Sant’anna, a supply-boat of the Oblate Missions, on its
trip from Fort Smith on Great Slake Lake to Tuktoyaktuk on the shores of the
Arctic Ocean.

Fort McMurray, the end of steel, is the southern limit of the Mackenzie
Vicariate. Here the mission supplies are loaded on boats and begin the long
haul to the Arctic and all intermediate points. Down the Slave River to Fort
Chipewyan on Lake Athabaska and on to the head of the rapids at Fort Fitz-
gerald. Here the cargoes are transferred to trucks for a sixteen mile run past
the rapids to Fort Smith. Fort Smith is the base of supplies for all the mission
posts of the North, and it is from here that the Sant’anna begins its journey.

Fort Smith, situated just north of the Alberta boundary, is headquarters of
the Mackenzie Vicariate. It comprises a property of about one hundred acres
on which are located the mission buildings and a spacious vegetable garden.
There is the residence of the missionaries, a three storey frame structure with
accommodation for about fifteen persons; a hospital with about one hundred
beds, the patients being mostly T.B. Indians; a large church; a school for boarders
and day-pupils; stables for live stock; a large poultry-yard and a number of store-
houses. A diesel plant supplies light and power for the group of buildings and
they have their own disposal plant. The reason for the storehouses is that the
supplies for all the missions from there to the Arctic are assembled at the Fort
during the winter, and during the summer months they are distributed to the
missions. The supply boats make three trips each year between mid-June and mid-

Brother Ansbert is lecturer in Christian Apologetics at St Joseph’s College, University
of Alberta He plays a keen game of golf in between lectures and, as Down the Mackenzie
on the Sant‘Anna fully demonstrates, he is quite a seasoned traveller—the sort that takes
along a fat notebook and a camera.

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September. We left Fort Smith on the first trip of the year on the 23rd of
June, pushing two barges loaded with about two hundred tons of supplies.

Our cargo consisted of building material, groceries, vegetables, canned goods
of every description, dry-goods, hospital equipment and supplies, dog-sleighs and
in fact, everything required to feed, clothe, house and nurse the hundreds of
personnel of the various missions.

Our course lay directly north, down the Slave River for two hundred miles
to Great Slave Lake. The country is flat and heavily wooded with spruce,
poplar and a sprinkling of birch. The river winds endlessly, and at one place
it makes a detour of fifteen miles to advance one mile toward the lake. Great
Slave is shallow and long, and storms blow up quickly, which renders it particularly
hazardous to navigation, especially to the flat-bottomed river boats with a draught
of only four or five feet. When we reached the lake it was covered with white-
caps, so we crept into shelter behind an island and waited four or five hours
for it to calm down. Our destination was Fort Resolution, about fifteen miles west
on the south shore, We finally ventured forth, and after an uneventful passage,
reached the Fort, where we found the whole population of the mission assembled
on the wharf to welcome us.

One extraordinary feature of the missions is the fact that they must do
absolutely everything themselves. There is no skilled labor available anywhere
north of Fort Smith; consequently the missionaries must depend on themselves
for masons, carpenters, plumbers and steamfitters, electricians, painters and decor-

Sant’anna and crew: author to the right of chaplin

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ators, engineers, captains, pilots and deck hands for their boats, hunters, fisher-
men and farmers. The lay-brothers do everything and most of them are experts
in one or several of these trades. In Fort Resolution they had just completed
a hospital as up-to-date as any city hospital, built entirely by the brothers, even
to the extent of installing the X-ray and other scientific equipment.

One of the major annual tasks is to supply each mission with meat, fish,
fodder for live stock and fuel for the furnaces. When the time comes, a number
of the brothers go out, accompanied by the local game-warden, and bring in
thirty, forty or fifty buffalo or reindeer, according to the size of the mission,
butcher and cure the meat and store it for the winter. Or they go out to the
nearest lake and bring in twenty, thirty or forty thousand fish for each mission.
Sometimes they have to go one hundred or even two hundred miles for fish or
game. At times their boats get caught in an early freeze-up, in which case they
leave them and go back to the mission for dogs to haul home the catch. The
labors and hardships involved in all this work are beyond description.

We left Fort Resolution Saturday evening, June 24th, at 8 o”clock. Our
course lay actoss the south west corner of Great Slave Lake for a distance of
160 miles to the outlet of the Mackenzie River. This we reached about noon,
Sunday, after a night of perfect calm—so calm and bright that at times we could
see the formation of ice crystals on the surface. The winter ice had just gone
out the week previous. On we went, down the Mackenzie till about five o’clock
when we reached the next mission, Fort Providence. To describe one of these
missions is to describe all; they vary only in size and in the fact that, besides the
mission-house some have a school and a hospital, while others have only the one

Approaching Camsel Bend: the author and the chaplain, the Reverend Father
Gillis, O.M.1.

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ot the other. Here they have no hospital and the missionary’s residence is a two-
storey frame structure built some sixty years ago with boards and timbers sawed
by hand by the missionary priest and a lay-brother. All the schools and hospitals
of the Vicariate are in charge of the Grey Nuns. Bishop Trocellier was ex-
pected to meet us at Fort Providence: so we delayed our departure till noon the
following day. Time was pressing: so we finally gave up hope of meeting him
and started on the next leg of our journey, a run of 175 miles down stream to
Fort Simpson.

About halfway down, when I was comfortably ensconced for the night, I heard
a commotion aboard and realized that the boat was landing. I knew that we
had not yet covered the distance to Fort Simpson, so I hustled out to see
what was afoot. There, on the right bank was a group of farm buildings in
a well-kept clearing, and I found that we had landed to take on about one
hundred bags of potatoes. I was amazed to find a prosperous vegetable farmer
so far north and wondered how he disposed of his crop. The matter was soon
explained by the presence on the shore of three or four scows which the farmer
used to distribute his produce up and down the river. We reached Fort Simpson
about seven o’clock next morning. Here again, we witnessed the usual set-up.
There is a hospital with a staff of nine sisters, a day-school with two teachers,
three missionary priests, and five lay-brothers. There is a light and power plant

(Left) the author in a quiet corner of the barge: (Right) the author in a parka

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and everything is fairly modern around the mission. There is also an Anglican
mission located at Fort Simpson, a Hudson Bay store, a North West “Mounty”
barracks and a wireless station.

Having discharged the part of the cargo destined for Fort Simpson and paid
a brief visit to the mission, we continued on our way, leaving at 10:00 that
morning. Our course lay west-north-west for about seventy miles out of Fort
Simpson until we reached Camsel Bend, where the river swings directly north. It
is here that we first sighted the Rockies, and from here on the scenery is mag-
nificent. The landscape is varied with mountain and valley, forest and waters
grouped together in forms of almost ideal beauty.

From Fort Smith northward the sunset glow of the midnight sky is quite
noticeable at this season of the year, and as we approach the Arctic Circle it
becomes brighter and brighter. Once past Camsel Bend the brilliant glow of
sunset remained fo greet the glorious effulgence of the morning until it merges
into the longed-for phenomenon of the midnight sun. What a thrill is experi-
enced the first night that a tiny crescent remains above the horizon! And then,
night after night more and more remains visible until finally the great orb
simply swings down to the horizon and again begins its course for a new day.

Meanwhile the clouds in the northern sky assume the most gorgeous and fan-
tastic coloring, presenting a wonderful blending of all the colors of the spectrum.
The whole heavens are ablaze with a beauty almost breath-taking. Then you turn
your eyes to the mirror-like surface of the river, a mile or two in width and
stretching ahead till it is lost on the horizon, and there you behold the whole
vault of heaven perfectly reflected. One feels himself transported beyond the
bounds of reality and imagines himself floating through the centre of a sphere
of indescribable magnificence.

Our next stop was Fort Wrigley, about one hundred and fifty miles from
Fort Simpson. Here there is only the mission church and one lone missionary.
The first we hear of this mission is in 1881 when there were three hundred Indians
here. In 1915 there were seventy-five, and today, between twenty and thirty.
Famine and disease have done their work. Before long, an Indian will be as rare
on the Fort Wrigley banks of the Mackenzie as on the shores of Manhattan.
Almost opposite the mission is the legendary “Rocher qui trempe a l'eau,” a
conical rampart five hundred feet high, whose cracks and crevices seem to have
been forming since the world began, and whose massive strength seems to say to
the river, “Thus far, and no farther.” As the missionary was absent, we dis-
charged our cargo and proceeded on to Fort Norman, another hundred and fifty
miles farther north.

Fort Norman is located at the mouth of the Great Bear River which drains the
lake of that name into the Mackenzie. It is the centre from which the mission-
aries radiate to serve the Indians of the locality. There is neither school nor
hospital here, only the church and missionaries’ residence. The port is a bustling
place owing to the trans-shipping of cargoes from the Great Bear area. After a

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leisurely tour of the village we were treated to a fine showing of colored views
of life among the Indians. Shortly after midnight we left for Normal Wells,
another fifty miles farther north.

Norman Wells, as everyone knows, is the great oil centre of the North, and
is situated on the east bank of the Mackenzie. Directly across the river is the
great Canol project, started by the Americans during World War II. This is
the starting point of the pipe line which they ran out across the Rockies and
down to the Pacific, and which served such a useful purpose during the war. It
is not in use at the present time as the pipe is too small for profitable operation,
but a maintenance crew is constantly on duty. The vast refinery and numerous
storage tanks cover several square miles and the oil is delivered through a number
of supply pipes, down to the river to the tankers and barges, for transportation to
the outside.

We left Normal Wells about five-thirty in the afternoon, our course lying
due north, into the path of the declining sun. The broad expanse of the Mackenzie
was as calm as crystal, which the brilliant rays of the setting sun turned into a
sea of molten gold. I sat on deck for hours in an ecstasy of admiration of the
dazzling scene which later acquired a fascinating border from the clear-cut re-
flection of the undulating spruce-capped shores.

At four o’clock next morning I was aroused and informed that we were about
to pass through the “Ramparts.” At this point the river narrows down to a width
of about a quarter of a mile and cuts its way through a formation of rock, varying
in height from one to four hundred feet. It is a spur of the Rockies that extends
some miles to the east where it flattens out and loses itself in the tundras. The
walls of the ramparts are formations of perpendicular rock, which in some places

Aklavik, showing landing, mission store-house and some of the personnel

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assume the form of citadels or cathedral towers. Here and there a tiny stream
shoots over the crest and is reduced to spray before it reaches the river. The
gap is about five miles in length, and once past it, the river expands to its normal
width. Our next port of call was the mission of Fort Good Hope, which we reached
at five-thirty that evening. ;

Good Hope is situated on the west bank two or three miles south of the Arctic
Circle. It is perched on an elevation some seventy-five feet above the river and
consists of the mission church and residence, the Hudson Bay store, the barracks
of the “Mounties” and a cluster of Indian huts. The church was built in 1860
of logs and timbers cut by hand by the missionaries. It is in perfect state of
repair and the interior is entirely covered with beautiful works of art, executed
by various priests and brothers, down through the decades. Two priests and three
brothers make up the personnel of the mission, and among other items of interest
I was surprised to find a thriving vegetable garden. We weighed anchor at nine
that night, happy in the thought that we were at last in the land of the midnight
sun. Next morning we reached Arctic Red River, some hundred and fifty miles
north of the Circle.

Arctic Red is just another Indian village, siruated on an elevation of about one
hundred and fifty feet. There is neither school nor hospital here, only a church
and a priests’ residence. The church is a frame structure which was built in
1896. It is well kept and furnishes ample accommodation for the small con-
gregation. The personnel of the mission consists of one priest and one brother.
We delayed only long enough to discharge our cargo, and by nine a.m. we were
on our way to Aklavik, our last port of call before reaching the Arctic Ocean.

At eleven fifteen we reached the southern boundary of the Mackenzie delta,
known as Separation Point. Here the great river splits up into various branches,
the outer ones receding continually till at the Arctic they are seventy miles apart.
We followed the western branch till about one p.m., when we turned left into
the Peel River which enters from the north at this place. We were bucking the
current from here on till we reached Aklavik at nine-fifteen that night.

Aklavik is the most important mission north of Fort Smith. There is a
boarding school, a hospital, the church and residence, with a personnel of mission-
aries, brothers and sisters of over twenty. There is also a large Anglican mission,
likewise consisting of a hospital, school and church with an adequate staff of
missionaries, nurses and teachers. The population is made up of Indians and
Esquimaux, in about equal numbers: they find plenty of employment during
navigation season with the Hudson Bay boats and those of the Northern

Transport.

I have referred to the fact that vegetables are grown successfully at various
places along the Mackenzie. I was greatly surprised when I discovered a thriving
garden at Fort Good Hope on the Arctic Circle, but I was simply amazed when I
was shown the mission garden at Aklavik. At this latitude the ground thaws to a
depth of about a foot; nevertheless the mission has a large garden of potatoes,

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cabbages, beets, radishes, lettuce, tomatoes and even celery, not to mention various
kinds of flowers. Needless to say, all this could be accomplished only with endless
care and labor. Father Adam, who is chiefly responsible for this remarkable
achievement, spends twelve to fourteen hours daily looking after things. With
his expert knowledge of botany and the fact that they have twenty-four hours of
sunlight daily for several weeks, he succeeds in accomplishing the impossible.

And so we start for the last lap of our journey, from Aklavik to Tuktoyaktuk,
familiarly known as “Tuk.” It is located on the shore of the Arctic about twenty-
five miles east of the Mackenzie delta. Our course led us angle-wise across the
delta so that we reached the ocean by the eastern branch of the great river. About
fifty miles before reaching the ocean, we struck the Barren Lands. There is not a
tree to be seen in this area and nothing grows on the flat tundra but moss and
an infinite variety of tiny scentless flowers. We passed Reindeer Station, a federal
government project intended to supply the Esquimaux with meat and domestic
animals. The herd is said to number about fifteen thousand, and the “Station”
consists of the homes of the ranger and his staff. They lend out herds of animals
to the natives who are allowed to slaughter a certain number each year, and if
possible, to train some of them for domestic use. They are required to keep the
herd up to the original number and have to render an account of them to the
ranger at stated intervals.

Within four miles of the ocean we ran aground on a sand-bar—the only
mishap of the entire trip. It happened just opposite a radar station known as
Kitty Gazuit, if I remember rightly, so that we had something to interest us while
the crew were struggling to free the boat. The radar tower is six hundred feet
high and has a maintenance crew in attendance. By the time we were clear of the
sand-bar a wind had blown up, which necessitated a delay of several more hours
before we dared venture forth. Finally we got under way and reached “Tuk”
about ten in the morning.

The little Eskimo village with a population of some two hundred is situated
on a bay, a mile or so in depth, which furnishes perfect protection from the
Arctic storms. There is a Catholic mission and an Anglican, each consisting of
church, residence and a single missionary. The rest of the village is made up of
the Hudson Bay store, the barracks of the Northwest “Mounties,” a wireless
station and a cluster of huts and tents scattered about without any plan or
design. The natives are well-built, able-bodied men and women of medium
height and pleasant disposition, all dressed in parkas and wearing moccasins.

When we reached “Tuk” it was very warm, the thermometer registering
eighty. However, about three in the afternoon a strong wind blew in from the
north, and by six that evening the temperature had dropped to thirty-five. Having
discharged our cargo, there was nothing further to detain us: so we lost no time
in beginning our return trip.

There are several other items of interest regarding the missions of which I
intended to say a word, but I find that I have already gone beyond the allotted

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“Tuk! from the bay, showing Catholic mission on right and Snowbird on left.

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space. I have said nothing about the various tribes of Indians, their customs and
folk-lore, the Northern Lights as described by one who has witnessed their mar-
vellous beauty north of the Circle, and the cataclysmic phenomenon of the break-
up of the ice in spring. Nor have I space to dwell on the tales of superhuman
endurance of some of the missionaries in the face of sickness, cold and starvation.
Anyone can read for himself the story of the missionary who induced his Indian
guide to remove all his toe-nails with pincers when, because of their condition, he
found it impossible to walk. Anyone interested in such details will find Mid Snow
and Ice by one of the missionaries, P. Duchaussois, O.M.L., very informative.

For information re Alumni Association dues see page 4.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Board of Governors of the University of Alberta is happy to
acknowledge the following gifts:

A valuable collection of Roman glass from the Norton Collection. This
gift came through Mr. J. R. Harper, Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology.

A contribution of one hundred dollars to the Post-Graduate Scholar-
ship in Dentistry from the Calgary Dental Society. The contribution
was received from Dr. L. K. Brooks, secretary, Calgary Dental Society.

A donation of fifty dollar to the Post-Graduate Scholarship in Dentistry

from Dr. J. W. Clay of Calgary.

The Historic Shudder

By E. P. ScarLetr

I must begin by craving your indulgence. I am a physician, or more narrowly,
that indefinite hybrid, an internist. Now according to Boswell, Dr. Johnson had
“in general a very peculiar pleasure in the company of physicians.” On the other
hand Bernard Shaw once wrote: “Doctors are yust like other Englishmen; most of
them have no honour and no conscience.” I can only hope that in this matter you
are Johnsonian rather than Shavian,

The phrase “the historic shudder” is an invention of Gustave Flaubert. By
the term he meant the sensation one gets when some event or condition of a past
time is brought home to one with the vividness of present-day life. In reading
some passages one suddenly has the sense of immediate experience. It is always
an exhilarating reaction, it may even be a blinding experience. You find it seldom
in formal history, but must usually look for it in out of the way places, notably in
letters, diaries or a line or two of poetry. I believe that this very waywardness con-
stitutes the best of all justifications for the practice of “browsing” through books
and for haunting second-hand book-stores, a vice to which I hope you are all
happily addicted. The historic shudder thus opens vistas and hints at the glories
of the pilgrimage of man in this world from the time when he moved under the
old ideal of the City of God down to the present wilderness of destruction when
once again he is struggling to establish himself through some form of embracing
world government and so avoid chaos. It is surely against such an historical
“back-drop” that we must view man today if the significance of his epic life on
this planet is not to escape us.

* Ok Ok Ok Ok

Now for three examples of the historic shudder. The first is from a letter
written by Thomas Betson, a wool merchant of the Staple while on a business trip
to Calais, to his bethrothed, Katherine Ryche at Stonor in Oxfordshire. The year
is 1476. Katherine is aged thirteen.

Be a good eater of your meat always, that ye may wax and grow fast to be a
woman... and to greet well my horse and pray him to give you four of his years
to help you withal. And I will ar my coming home give him four of my years and
four horse-loaves to make amends. Tell him that I prayed him so. ... And Almighty
Jesu make you a good woman and send you always good years and long to live in
health and virtue to his pleasure. Written at Calais the first day of June, when
every man was gone to his dinner, and the clock smote noon and all our household
cried after me and bad me come down. ‘Come down to dinner at once!” and what
answer I gave them ye know of old. (Stonor Letters, Camd. Soc. IT.)

The Historic Shudder was first given by Dr E P Scarlett as an address to the Men’s
Faculty Club of the University of Alberta in the fall of 1950 At our request he was good
‘enough to go back over his notes and put together the article we print in this issue. As
many readers of The New Trail already know, Dr Scarlett is a busy physician in Calgary
and a member of the Board of Governors of our university.

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This is a delightful “flash-back”; after more than four centuries the figure of
Thomas Betson answering the summons as “the clock smote noon” is still alive
for us.

The second example is from Tudor England. The reading of the Bible was
first prohibited by Henry VIII except for those who occupied high offices in the
state; a noble lady or gentlewoman might read it in “their garden or orchard” or
other retired places; but men and women in the lower ranks were positively for-
bidden to read it or to have it read to them. Dr. Franklin in his Life records a
singular anecdote during this strict prohibition in the time of the Catholic Queen
Mary. His family had then embraced the Reformation.

They had an English Bible, and to conceal it the more securely, they conceived the
project of fastening it open with packthreads across the leaves, on the inside of the
lid of a close-stool. When my great-grandfather wished to read to his family he
reversed the lid of the close-stool upon his knees, and passed the leaves from one side
to the other, which were held down on each by the packthread. . . . One of the
children was stationed at the door to give notice if he saw an officer of the Spiritual
Court make his appearance; in that case the lid was restored to its place, with the Bible
concealed under it as before.

The third instance of the historic shudder was set down over sixteen hundred
years ago. One of the most moving fragments dealing with the theme of married
love and happiness, it was written by a Roman consul, Ausonius (310-395 A.D.).

Uxor, vivamus ut viximus, et teneamus
® nomina quae primo sumpsimus in thalamo;
nec fera ulla dies, ut commutemur in aevo,
quin tibi sim juvenis tuque puella mihi.

This has been happily translated in part as follows:

Love, let us live as we have lived, nor lose
The little names that were the first night’s grace,
And never comes the day that sees us old,

T still your lad, and you my little lass.

His wife died when she was still “the little lass” that he had thought to find her
in his old age. In a letter written thirty-six years later, he says that the house is
still empty about him.
* * * * *

I am tempted to think that we might enlarge our view of the historic shudder.
It may be that things such as this in a flash take us beyond the prosaic world of
reality in which we are imprisoned and give us a glimpse of the greater reality.

Turn but a stone, and start a wing!

After all a man’s view of an incident is one with his view of the contemporary
world, and his view of the contemporary world is one with his view of Time. In
this universe in which we find ourselves, there is so much outside the little
custom-built area in which we have locked ourselves. This greater reality is in-
credible whether we see it through the eyes of science or mysticism or religious
faith. It can be hinted at in poetry which is our best divining rod—“Poetry is the

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language in which man explores his own amazement.” But we aie still left with
the mystery; in this manner we cannot live by Freud or Einstein alone. If in this
way we raise the historic shudder to a higher dimension, it may serve to point up
history as a poetic drama or epic—Trevelyan’s idea of history. It may enlarge
one’s perspective and give one a more humble understanding of life. It may clear
for an instant the mirror in which we see darkly. It may illuminate the human
drama revealing, as Mr. Christopher Fry has remarked, that tragedy is the demon-
stration of the human dilemma, comedy the comment on the human dilemma, and
laughter a great mystery of the flesh.

In my own experience instances of the historic shudder are closely linked with
serendtpity, Horace Walpole’s blessed word to describe the experience of unex-
pectedly coming on something entrancing while engaged in looking for something
else usually quite prosaic. One example will serve. Recently while going through
the files of some of the early English magazines in search of medical items of the
time, I came across the following letter in the Monthly Magazine of February
1798. It concerns “the great cham,” Dr. Samuel Johnson, who had died in 1791.

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine—February 1798.
Sir:

In the year 1783, I went in the stage coach from London to Salisbury. Upon
entering it, I perceived three gentlemen, one of whom strongly attracted my notice.
He was a corpulent man with a book in his hand, placed very near to his eyes. He
had a large wig, which did not appear to have been combed for an age: his clothes
were threadbare. On seating myself in the coach, he lifted up his eyes and directed
them towards me; but in an instant they resumed their former employment. 1 was
immediately struck with hs resemblance to the print of Dr. Johnson, given as a
frontispiece to the “Lives of the Poets”, but how to gratify my curiosity I was at a
loss. I thought from all I had heard of Dr. Johnson, that I should discover him 1f,
by any means, I could engage him in conversation. The gentleman by the side of
him remarked, “I wonder, Sir, that you can read in a coach which travels so swiftly;
it would make my head ache.” ‘Aye Sit”, replied he, “books make some people’s
head ache”. This appeared to me Johnsonian. I knew several persons with
whom Doctor Johnson was well acquainted: this was another mode of trying how far
my conjecture was right. “Do you know Miss Hannah More, Sir?” “Well Sir, the
best of all the female versifiers”. This phraseology confirmed my former opinion
We now reached Hounslow, and were served with our breakfast. Having found that
none of my travelling companions knew this gentleman, I plainly put the question,
“May I take the liberty, Sir, to enquire whether you be not Dr. Johnson?” “The
same, Sir”. “I am happy”, I replied, “to congratulate the learned world, that Dr.
Johnson, whom the papers lately announced to be dangerously indisposed, is re-
established in his health”. ‘The civilest young man I ever met with in all my life”,
was his answer. From that moment he became very gracious towards me. I was
then preparing to go abroad, and I imagined that I could derive some useful in-
formation from a character so eminent for learning. “What book of travels, Sir,
would you advise me to read, previously to my setting off upon a tour to France and
Italy?” “Why, Sir, as to France, I know no book worth a groat; and as to Italy,
Baretti paints the fair side and Sharp the foul; the truth, perhaps, les between the
two”, Every step which brought us near to Salisbury increased my pain, at the
thought of leaving so interesting a fellow traveller. I observed that at dinner he
contented himself with water as his beverage. I asked “Whether he had ever tasted

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bumbo, a West-Indian potation which 1s neither more nor less than very strong
punch”, “No, Sir”, said he. I made some. He tasted; and declared that if he
ever drank anything else than water, 1t would be bumbo. When the sad moment of
separation, at Salisbury, arrived, “Sir,” said he, “let me see you in London upon
your return to your native country. I am sorry that we must part. I have always
looked upon it as the worst condition of man’s destiny, that persons are so often torn
asunder, just as they become happy 1n each other’s society.”

Perhaps, Mr, Editor, you may think this little narrative worthy of a place in
your excellent Repository. Although many writers have detailed the private life of
Dr. Johnson, so that his character 1s completely understood, yet every little anecdote,
hitherto unpublished, respecting such a prodigy of literature cannot, I should suppose,
be altogether uninteresting.

I remain, Sir, Yours,

HF

There is the great Doctor to the life, seen through the eyes of a contemporary in
comment not unworthy of Boswell himself.

Max Beerbohm once said. “There is always something rather absurd about the
past.” But in most instances it is a very human and endearing absurdity. Witness
this passage from John Aubrey’s Brief Lives (1680) :

“He (Sir Walter Raleigh) took a pipe of tobacco a little before he went to
the scaffold, which some formal persons were scandalised at, but I think ’twas well
and properly done, to suit his spirits.”

One of my favorite examples of the historic shudder is a passage too long for
quotation here from Benjamin Robert Haydon’s Autobiography (1853), the
episode known as “The Immortal Evening.” Haydon describes a dinner and
evening’s entertainment in his studio in the company of Charles Lamb, Keats,
Wordsworth, Ritchie and Monkhouse. There was also present an unknown
gentleman, a comptroller of stamps, who was such a stupid bore that Lamb took
a candle and insisted on examining the poor fellows “bumps”. The group finally
had to pull Lamb outside the room and appease the outraged comptroller. (Inci-
dentally for those who know this passage it may be remarked that in A Life of
John Keats by Dorothy Hewlett, recently published, there are extracts from Hay-
don’s diary which give a different account of the famous evening from that of
the Autobiography.)

Then there is the account of Mozart’s meeting with Beethoven. The year was
1787 and Mozart’s father, Leopold, had just died.

This was Wolfgang’s frame of mind, this preoccupation with death and the
remote and spiritual, when a young traveller was brought in to see him. The visitor
was a pianist, already of reputation, and had come from Bonn to Vienna, a meeting
with Mozart being one of his objectives. The youth’s name was Ludwig van
Beethoven. He was seventeen, though his broad, scowling face topped by a shock of
wild brown hair looked much older. He was unhappy and nervous. Wolfgang
asked him to play. Ludwig chose one of his host’s concertos, and played well but with
so little spirit thac Wolfgang could not force himself to pay attention. He was even
more restless than usual today, unable to sit in one place or keep his hands and feet

still. He had been quietly visiting with Jacquin and several other friends when
Beethoven’s visit had interrupted them, and he had left them in the next room while

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he went to hear the young man play. Beethoven noticed his distraction, and un
willing to leave without some better reaction, asked Wolfgang for a theme on which
to improvise. Wolfgang rose and went to the clavier, listless and bored; Beethoven,
even in the presence of an admired master, was sullen. How different each would
have felt had Beethoven known that Mozart was grieving for his dying father, or
Wolfgang known that his guest was wracked with despair for his mother, then lying
on her deathbed! Beethoven took Wolfgang’s theme and began to improvise. Then
the abstracted little man sat up and listened. A torrent of astounding music filled
the room, and the ugly pockmarked face above the keyboard was transformed. Wolf-
gang arose and went to the doorway where Jacquin and the others were grouped in
silent astonishment. ‘Keep an eye on that young man”, Wolfgang said, “He will
make a noise in the world some day”. (from Mozart by Marcia Davenport.)

In the year just past we celebrated the centenary of the birth of Robert Louis
Stevenson whose life so completely fulfilled the old rune which is at the centre
of the Scots character—‘“In my end is my beginning.” In the following lines
from a letter you have in a flash the real R. L. S. Stevenson is writing from
Samoa to George Meredith, September 5th, 1893:

For fourteen years I have not had a day’s real health; I have wakened sick and
gone to bed weary; and I have done my work unflinchingly. I have written in bed,
and written out of it, written in hemorrhages, written in sickness, written torn by
coughing, written when my head swam for weakness; and for so long, it seems to
me I have won my wager and recovered my glove. I am better now, have been
rightly speaking since first I came to the Pacific; and still, few are the days when
I am not in some physical distress. And the battle goes on—ill or well, is a trifle; so
as it goes. I was made for a contest, and the Powers have so willed that my battle-
field should be this dingy, inglorious one of the bed and the physic bottle. At least
I have not failed, bue I would have preferred a place of trumpetings and the open
air over my head.

* * * * *

You are now saying, particularly those of you who have been schooled in the
discipline of history, “This man is a pure Romantic”. I do not quite admit the
charge. I confess that I have not achieved a satisfying philosophy of history, but
I have come to some conclusions in the matter. The first is that the so-called
scientific school of history leaning heavily on historical relativism drives us into
a pragmatic attitude toward truth that for me is undesirable and untenable. The
second: the lesson of history is a lesson neither of cynicism nor of nihilism. There
are enduring values independent of time and place. Hatred, cruelty, intolerance,
indifference are evil; love, kindliness, tolerance, forgiveness, honesty are good.
These it seems to me may be deduced from history without the assurance of any
religious authority. The third: the material which the historian has to observe is
in the last analysis neither the individual nor the institution, but the relationship
between the two. And finally: in the face of history the logical attitude for me as
an individual is one of humility, pity and reverence for life. The great words
of John Bradford hold true here: “There, but for the grace of God, go I”.
History is thus a school for virtue in the grand classical sense of that word.

I realize that my remarks are following the familiar pattern of today—re-
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academic and popular studies of the most remote corners of history. At a time
when creative writing and thinking are at a low ebb and when the prevailing note
is one of disintegration, it is inevitable I suppose that man should busy himself
with time past and draw heavily on what the genius of the past has created for
him. Certainly in this matter as individuals I suggest that each of us may well
develop two sides in thought and practice. In the one we go into the sanctuary
of the past to renew our contact with beauty and truth, and here the world of
books and art and music serve us in proportion as we submit ourselves to their
disciplines. On the other side we immerse ourselves in life and for at least short
seasons rely upon ourselves for our imaginative experience. The balance between
the two may be heightened by remembering that books are a kind of shorthand
for multiplying experience and that there is singular value in occasional periods
of fasting from literature. It is a difficult ideal to achieve, much more so than
today when, as Aldous Huxley has said, we are tortured metaphysicists without
our John Donne. But it serves to keep us human, at once humble and proud,
working within our limits and yet transcending them.

* * * * *

One other fanciful example of the historic shudder. Sir Thomas Browne,
physician-writer, he of the “lordly Latinites”, though born in Cheapside, London
(1605), practised medicine in the old city of Norwich and became probably its
most famous citizen. His house near the church of St. Peter Mancroft where he
is buried has long since disappeared, but there is a tablet at the site—Number 12,
Orford Place, and hard by in the square there is a fine monument to the old
doctor showing him gazing at a broken funeral urn which he holds in his hand. It
seems that in 1929 a curious error apppeared in Kelly’s Directory of Norwich in
which through a misreading of the Orford Place tablet, Sir Thomas Browne was
listed as a living and practising physician. The entry in the directory yead:
“Browne, Thomas, M.D., 12 Orford Place”.

It is not hard to imagine that in 1929, in a house not too far from Orford
Place a woman is suddenly taken ill. Her frantic husband grabs for the directory
to look for a physician. There is no telephone, but the nearest doctor is a man
named Browne. The husband rushes out into the darkened streets and in a few
moments is standing before the tablet in Orford Place. He reads: Thomas
Browne, D.D. He plunges his thumb into the bell—and gets him! Sir Thomas
appears to go on a call!

* * * * *

I should not like to leave this subject of the historic shudder without this final
camment. We must not be too “hot for certainties in this our life”. It is prob-
ably as well that the felicities and the great moments which are granted to us in
this world are fleeting glimpses. The reality if we saw it steadily and whole
might be more than we could bear. And one may add this—the reality may well
be better than the dream, but it is good, while we live the reality, to dream the
dream,

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LS6L ‘Gt AoW uo

peuedo Ajjoloijjo ‘AuDaqiq. psopwayiny Mau

The hutherford Library

By Eprrp Parx

The new Rutherford Library is now completed and will be officially opened
on May 15th. It is hoped that it will be ready for use by the coming summer
session. We were fortunate indeed in being allowed to go over the building just
ptior to the moving day, and to say that we were vastly impressed would be putting
it with all the Anglo-Saxon understatement possible.

Handsome as is the exterior of the new building, the interior, from the general
decoration down to the minutest detail of finishing, is truly remarkable and should
be a source of pride to all who have any connection with this university. Great
credit is due to the architects of the building, Mathers and Haldenby of Toronto,
and the Edmonton firm of Rule, Wynn and Rule, and to all others who were
responsible for its erection, but we would like to give a very special word of praise
to Miss Sherlock and Mr. Glyde who planned the interior. The choice of wood-
work, panelling and flooring materials and the truly marvellous use of color is
something we do not think could be surpassed in any building we have seen.

To those of us for whom the library was a simple matter of some dozen or so
tables, one desk, and a crowded basement stack, the new library, with its many
reading rooms, delivery room, periodical room and so forth, is, to say the least,
bewildering. To give readers as clear a picture as possible it would perhaps be
best to describe it floor by floor.

The main door leads through the entrance foyer into the main hall. Both the
foyer and hall are finished in polished Tyndall stone and the floor 1s gleaming
terrazzo, all in a warm buff tone. The only furnishings in the hall are a number
of oak benches and glass display cases to be used for rare books and museum
articles. On the main floor, besides coat rooms and staff work rooms, are the
reserve reading room, the Weir Memorial Law Library and the medical sciences
reading room. These rooms are all units in themselves, with their own offices and
access to the stacks. The law library is distinctive in having dark woodwork and
furniture, of solid and comfortable design, and mushroom-colored walls, which,
we don’t quite know why, seemed to us exactly in keeping for a law library. Both
the medical sciences and the reserve reading rooms are finished in limed oak, as is
the rest of the building. Turquoise walls and recessed fluorescent lighting com-
bine with the light woodwork to give a pleasant, light and restful effect.

The staircases in the building are worthy of note, being finished in gleaming
Italian marble with a polished brass stair rail. Downstairs in the basement is the
applied science reading room for the use of the engineering and agriculture facul-
ties, with their own stacks, delivery desk and full time reference service. To com-
pensate for basement lighting, walls here are a warm sunny yellow. The extension
library is also housed in the basement but has its own entrance at the side of the
building. The basement also contains staff rooms, including comfortable lounges

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and well-equipped kitchen. Something of an innovation is the smoking study
room, Tables here are round and less formally arranged, permitting discussion
and a freer atmosphere. A novel effect has been achieved in the furniture
which is sturdily constructed of birch, limed in turquoise to blend with the
turquoise walls and light knotty pine panelling.

Also in the basement is a large projection room capable of seating one hundred
people. This is for the use of classes which require moving pictures and is also
to be used by the Extension Department to show documentaries and other out-
standing films during the noon hour.

The majority of students using the building will mount the stairs to the second
floor to reach the main delivery room. This is a large room, handsomely panelled
in light oak, with a large oak desk extending in an arc, to facilitate the checking
in and out of books. At one side is the main catalogue. Students may consult
the catalogue while standing at convenient desks or seated in comfort at tables if
they have many references to look up. References are then given to library attend-
ants and speeded to the various stack levels by means of pneumatic tubes. Books
are delivered to and from the stack by means of an electric elevator. To the left
of the delivery desk is a browsing corner where current books will be displayed
and comfortable red leather chairs will invite students to pause and catch up on
their general reading.

The main reference reading room, reached through an archway from the
delivery room, will accommodate two hundred and sixty-five readers. Two stories
high, with oak panelling and walls of empire green, this is truly a magnificent
room. The lighting comes from incandescent fixtures recessed in the coffered
ceiling. The room is dominated by a large mural depicting scenes and incidents
in the history of Alberta.

The mural is the gift of Professor Glyde of the Fine Arts Department. It is
a composite work depicting the civilizing influences in the early life of the province
and particularly of the Edmonton district around the period 1850-1870. The two
dominant figures are those of the two great missionaries, Father Lacombe and
Rev. John MacDougall. The latter is depicted holding a service in an Indian
encampment. At his side is a “mountie,” to indicate his co-operation with the
forces of law and order. Father Lacombe is shown with raised crucifix in one of
his many courageous attempts to pacify the warlike Indians. Another important
figure is the famous Hudson’s Bay factor, Rowan. Behind him are the York boats
of the traders and in the background the inhabitants of Fort Edmonton coming
down to the river to meet them. Lesser figures include trappers and traders and
bands of Crees and Blackfeet. ‘Three famous early churches are shown—the
Morley church, the original MacDougall church and Father Lacombe’s chapel,
now at St. Albert, which was the first school. The painting is done in casein and
demar varnish in a fresco technique, and we are told that it is the only mural of
its kind in Alberta. Professor Glyde was assisted in his work by the staff ot the
Fine Arts Department. The mural is to be unveiled at the official opening.

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To get back to the library itself, we should mention that the second floor
also contains an up-to-date cataloguing room and order room, and the office of
the chief librarian. On this floor, too, is the periodical room where all the
current general periodicals will be available.

Of the rooms on the third floor, the music listening room is perhaps the most
interesting. Here students may select recordings and have them played. The
setting is perfect for informal listening. Comfortable loyalist maple furniture is
upholstered in soft tones of coral, chartreuse and grey, the same colors being
repeated in the drapes. If such inspired decorating is not essential to music appre-
ciation it certain leaves nothing undone to encourage it.

The third floor also contains a number of seminar, conference and typing
rooms. A small art gallery and a museum for the display of the univer-
sity’s Indian collection, occupy one end. There is also a painting room for fine
arts students who wish to copy prints of the great masters. Somewhere along here
was a room for projecting or viewing microfilm or whatever you do with microfilm
—by this time, we'll admit we were getting a bit hazy.

Not much can be said in describing empty stacks, except to say that there are
six floors of them and that these provide about seventy carrells or study cubicies
and study desks for more than forty readers—these are for the use of graduate
and honor students and faculty, of course, and include typing cubicles where
research students may tap away without disturbing others.

So far we have talked more about the decorating in the brary than the books,
chiefly because the books had not been moved when we were there. But if a library
without its books is something of an anomaly—rather a pie without its filling—
at least one could see that every possible device to facilitate the selection and
availability of books has been embodied in this wonderful building. One small
instance particularly took our fancy—it was the tilting of the lower shelves so
that titles could be seen without stooping. Special shelves have been devised for
the most convenient display of periodicals. A hundred and one little touches
have been added to save time and work both for student and staff. Lighting is
subdued and yet completely adequate; the use of color throughout cheerful, airy,
yet never obtrusive.

Whether the students who will enjoy these modern facilities will be better
educated than we who can remember only the crowded tables, the creaky old book
lift and the mouse traps in the stacks, we would not care to guess, but if they
are not it will not be for lack of the most beautiful and most perfectly equipped
library in the West.

.

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For information re Alumni Association dues see page 4.

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38

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jun} yf

89

February 17, 1951

In spite of the usual February weather, influenza epidemic and general busy-
ness of the late winter season an imposing array of councillors gathered in the
conference room of the new Students’ Union Building of the University of
Alberta last February 17, to discuss the business affairs of our Alumni Association.
In the accompanying photograph you will find them all lined up—reading from
left to right (standing) they are: C. G. Youngs, Saskatoon; J. G. McIntosh,
Victoria; Owen Hooper, president of class 51; Robb Wilson, Zone 5; Michael
O'Byrne, president of the Students’ Union; Bob Houlihan, Winnipeg; Rodney
Pike, Edmonton; Dr. Frank Conroy, Medical Alumni Association; Morley
Tanner, Lethbridge; and Dr. Wyatt, Medicine Hat. Seated and again from
left to right are: Dr. Jack Chalmers, Zone 3; G. B. Taylor, honorary secretary;
Miss Audrey Fysh, Nurses’ Alumnae Association; J. C. Ken Madsen, new vice-
president; Dr. A. C. McGugan, president; Mrs. Fred Heath, Toronto; J. W. E.

Markle, secretary-treasurer; and Bob Bannerman, Calgary.

Other councillors unable to attend the sessions are Paul Thomas, Edmonton;
Dr. Phil Kendal, Dental Alumn: Association; I. Goresky, Smoky Lake-Thorhild;
G. R. Sterling, 4A; and Dale Newcombe, editor-in-chief of The Gateway.

The morning session was largely devoted to routine reports. Here is that of
the secretary-treasurer:

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Edmonton, Alberta

Balance Sheet as at December 31, 1950

Assets
Deposit Accounts:
University of Alberta $2,144.97
Postmaster 3.00
————_ $2,147.97
Trust Assets:
H. M. Tory Scholarship Endowment Fund:
Deposit Accounts:
University of Alberta $2,048.62
National Trust 312.71
Investments as per schedule 2,300.00
$4,661.33

$6,809.30

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LiaBILITIES
University of Alberta re publication of New Trail $ 900.00
Surplus:
Balance January 1, 1950 $256.12
Add: Prior year adjustment re furnish-
ing fund expenses 667.18
Excess of revenue over expendi-
ture for the year ‘ 324.67
1,247.97
Trust:
Balance January 1, 1950 $4,371:46
Add: Life Memberships 125.00
Interest and premiums carned 164.87
Statement of Revenue and Expenditure
for the year ended December 31, 1950
Revenue:
Fees $1,530.25
Less Life Membership transferred to H. M. Tory
Scholarship Endowment Fund 125.00
$1,405.25
Surplus donated by Edmonton Branch 62.94
Expenditure:
Publication of the New Trail:
Estimated Share of Cost for 1950 $900.00
Less Excess of 1949 Estimated Cost
($1,700.00) over 1949 Actual Cost
($1,412.66) 287.34
$ 612.66
Annual Dinner:
Dinner $450.00
Flowers and Candles 16.80
Stationery 23.76
Honoraria 10.00

$500.56

$2,147.97

4,661.33

$6,809.30

$1,468.19

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Deduct:
Receipts from sale of
tickets $357.54
Less amount transfer-
red to fees (104 grad-

uands at 50c) 52.00
305.54
% 195.02
General Expenses:
Travelling $237.05
Assistance to Students’ Union in adver-
tising new building 51.00
American Alumni Council fee 31.60
Honorarium, 1949 Audit 10.00
Exchange and sundry 6.19
3 335.48
——— 1,143.52
Excess of Revenue over Expenditure for the year $ 324.67

Lunch hour in the cafeteria with the Board of Governors as hosts was a happy
innovation this year. Councillors enjoyed a “close-up” of the new president of the
University, Professor Andrew Stewart, and very much appreciated his address of
welcome. In fact we heard many a one express the wish that the Board »f Gov-
ernors might meet again next year on the same day as the council of the alumni.

The afternoon session was long and spirited. Homecoming took up a deal of
time. The council went on record as approving (a) more participation on the part
of the alumni, (b) a holiday or long weekend for the celebration, (c) a sport event
if possible and parade, (d) a sharing of costs between the Alumni Association and
the Students’ Union.

The council gave considerable heavy thought to the problem of creating interest
in the Association. Chief suggestions were (a) that social activities should be
stressed rather than mere fund raising, (b) that The New Trail be distributed
occasionally free to groups of graduates who are not in good standing, (c) that
personal contact be stressed by all alumni on all occasions, (d) that the branches
undertake programmes geared to stress the needs and desires both of the members
and of the University.

At one place in the proceedings Mr. O’Byrne proffered the thanks of the
Students’ Union for the $7,000 cheque received from the Alumni Association—
its initial donation toward the Furnishing Fund of the Union’s new building.

The policies of The New Trail were reviewed at some length. Dr. Chalmers
offered the suggestion that at least one issue a year be devoted to a unified theme

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—say literature, oil, industry or education—and that advertising material of a suit-
able nature be obtained. Mr. McIntosh thought a proper legal form for the use
of persons wishing to make bequests to the University might be included in the
magazine’s format. Mr. Wilson expressed the belief that an article dealing with
the University’s funds and foundations might create an interest in such matters.
The council decided to defer action on a suggestion from the auditor that the
financial year of the Association be changed to coincide with that of the University.
The reports from the various branches were well received and indicated that
these, if not all in a flourishing condition, are yet healthy and imbued with the
‘will to live.
Nominations for the Executive Committee 1951 resulted in the following slate:

Honorary President Dr. Fred G. McNally
Past President Dr. W. H. Swift
President Dr. A. C. McGugan
Vice-President J. C. Ken Madsen
Honorary Secretary G. B. Taylor
Executive members Miss Audrey Fysh, Rodney Pike

A dinner in the cafeteria at 6:30 p.m. wound up the proceedings for a tired
council. If one may judge by the gusto with which the various guests attacked
their fowl and peas, all had had a full day and viewed the results with satisfaction.

So that was that. Another milestone in the history of the Alumni Association
was passed, and here’s hoping that 1951 will be a yet more successful year!

Files of the Edmonton Bulletin, Alberta‘’s oldest newspaper
until its cessation of publication last January, have been
acquired by the University of Alberta for academic use, it
was announced recently by University officials

Founded in 1880 by the late Frank Oliver, The Bulletin
had published almost steadily since that time except for a
brief interval in 1925 When the Edmonton Journa! pur-
chased the physical assets of the Edmonton Bulletin Limited
tn January, it acquired the bound files of the Bulletin These
it has presented to the University.

Invaluable as a source of early historical data of the
Canadian Northwest, the Bulletin files will be used by students
doing research in history, political economy, political science,
and agriculture.

The files are now housed in the stacks of the new Ruther-
ford Library on the University campus, and include copies of
Bulletins published from 1895 to 1951. Previous editions of
the paper were microfilmed about 18 months ago by the
Canadian Library Association, which at that time decided to
record photographically western newspapers of great historical
value.

Books of Our Own

A Review of “Cloud Physics’ by D. W. Perrie, University of Toronto Press.
L. H. NicHots

In these times when we see and hear a lot about the weather viewed through
official rose-coloured glasses, it is reassuring to come upon a book, written by
a Canadian meteorologist and a graduate of the University of Alberta, which treats
facts in an objective manner. Amongst the many subjects for investigation in
meteorology at present none is perhaps more controversial than accounting for
heavy continuous rain. Since “clouds” are a visible part of this process a mono-
gtaph on clouds is of great interest. ,

We are given an exceptional treat by Mr. Perrie. He not only delights the
eye with his excellent cloud photographs (some of them taken by himself), but
he stimulates the mind by putting before us all the information (available at the
time of writing) on cloud formation and theories of precipitation. His recapitu-
lation and commentary should be very helpful to all interested in these topics.

Tt is true that in the discussion of cloud forms and their classification he is
tempted to increase the already numerous qualifying conditions for members of a
class, blurring the boundaries, yet such a tendency is almost inevitable during a
time of flux and upheaval in a subject.

One particular class of cloud, very striking and of which there is an excellent
photograph, is the mammilatory type. Views differ as to its causes. These clouds
are of relatively frequent occurrence in Alberta and seem to be associated with a
layer of cool turbulent moist air far aloft and dry warm air beneath. Their
appearance seems to fit in with a hypothesis that there are cells of vertical air
currents; the “holes” occur where upward currents pierce the cloud layer and
“pouches” are the portions of cool cloud descending. The pouches are drying up
at the edges in contact with the upward warm currents and evaporate completely
at a certain ceiling level owing to adiabatic warming. Humphreys, as quoted in
the text, is not very informative.

The section on condensation nuclei has brought the results of recent work and
speculations together in a clean manner. A very recent paper’ indicates that the
abundance of nuclei, called for, are at hand in the open air after all. The electron-
microscope has come to the rescue.

In the matter of growth of raindrops (always a seductive topic) there seems
to be a dilemma. Apart from the statement on p. 51, “In nimbostratus there is
sufficient turbulence to sustain raindrops until they grow to fairly large sizes . . .”
which assumes that nimbostratus has vertical development, but only suggested on
p. 9, there is another opinion, p. 54, by Swinbank, who states that “coalescence of

1Condensation in Nuclei under the Electron Microscope. Hosler, Am. Geophys. Union,
Vol. 31, 5.

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cloud droplets with drops falling through the cloud is unlikely”. Reading these
statements we seem to be left with the problem of how raindrops grow in the first
stage, apart altogether from their growing still larger. Moreover now that it has
been conclusively shown that heavy rain can occur in nature without any part of
the cloud being below the freezing point’ the layman might be pardoned for con-
cluding that continuous heavy rain borders on the miraculous.

The chapter on Clouds in Relation to Forecasting is brief but highly significant.
Any weather forecaster could obviate issuing occasional unrealistic forecasts by
taking a stroll on the roof of the weather office after consulting his forecast map.
He could then go down and make his deduction agree with what could be
observed.

Mr. Perrie has summarized all the facts about clouds in a comprehensive and
convenient set of charts and has also included a helpful glossary of technical terms
and jargon for the uninitiated. Everything considered, this little book is an asset
to the professional and amateur meteorologist alike as well as an attractive

addition to the library table.

2Observations of rain from non-freezing clouds E J Smith, Quart Journ Roy Met
Soc. Vol. 77, 331.

LOCAL RAG by Barbara Villy Cormack

This is not a book review. I have always been a little dubious concerning the
real value of that form of literary pronouncement. The surest way to send a book
to the top of the best-seller list is to broadcast the news that decent people ought
not to read it. On the other hand, so many books which have received the approval
of the most responsible reviewers too often lag far down the list of successes.
Then, too, I, more often than not, find myself in complete disagreement with the
professional reviewers. So I prefer to call this effort an appreciation or a report.
My purpose is merely to call the attention of the readers of The New Trail to the
fact that one of our own graduates, Barbara Villy Cormack, has written a charm-
ing novel, which she calls Local Rag and which has been published by the Ryerson
Press and is obtainable at $3.25 a copy.

You know, the habits of people with books are quite extraordinary. I imagine
that the average reviewer tosses off his bit of copy for the deadline with the feeling
that now readers the world over are going to devour his stuff and rush off to the
nearest bookseller and invest the required dollars and cents. I have no doubt that
some do just that, but I think that the majority do nothing of the sort. They
hurry off to the nearest lending library, or failing that to someone of their acquaint-
ance who has been improvident enough to invest his good money in that certain
book and who is expected to put it at once into circulation. I have had many an
encounter with such “literary” people and they have taught me selfishness and

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caution. I no longer lend my cherished books, and I shall not put my copy of
Local Rag by Barbara Villy Cormack into circulation. Not even among my
closest friends. You see, it has done something to me; renewed in me something
I thought I had lost: made me just a little bit different, perhaps a bit better, and
I am going to keep it right beside me. I am like that with books I like, and I do
like Local Rag.

I want to tell you why.

It all began with the first glance at the book. Few publishers are so happy in
the choice of a dust cover design. I know this may seem a trivial detail but
please remember this is not a proper book review. I am merely talking about my
own particular reaction, and I repeat, I had at the first glance an immediate and
most pleasant feeling of remembrance. How often I have stubbed my toes on that
bumpy old board walk in front of the Hungerford store in my own Crossroads.
How often I have watched the lazy bluebottles buzzing in the hot window of the
meat shop just down the street, as they hovered over the beef or pork or fat home-
made sausages. I sniffed again in my nose the mentholated odor of the drug store
where we used to buy everything from Babies’ Own Tablets to bone china. And
there was the office of the Weekly News with a discreet but rain-stained curtain
providing a degree of privacy. In my little Crossroads we didn’t call the weekly
newspaper “The News”, but I shall never forget how we used to shake our
superior heads over the editor’s stilted and clumsy editorials and then devour every
word of the “local rag”. Yes, it’s a good send-off for a book to have a cover that
stirs something in somebody.

And that feeling of old and dear remembrance persisted all the way through
the book. For Local Rag is all about a little town which the author chooses to call
Crossroads. It is supposedly located in the southern part of Alberta but for my
part it could be in the east, west, north or south corner of anywhere. For the
people you will meet there are the same folk with whom you have lived and are
still living in the daily round of life. Some readers will call them plain: and that
word will do as well as any other to describe good old Aunt Letty who wouldn’t
for the world let anyone suspect that at heart she was a sentimental old dear, or
Dad King with his down-to-earth system of philosophy. Oh yes, if you mean by
“plain” the sort of folk one meets every day; but if you mean “not complex” I fear
you will be all wrong. I rather think that vein of iron in Margaret Hungerford,
the illegitimate mother, and the Jacob parallel in good old Alec or the behaviour of
Mrs. Chummy and Mother Evans in the face of their own particular tragedies
would have provided plenty of scope for one of our modern psycho-analysts. Most
readers will, I think, feel that they can match every paragraph, every person, every
incident, every building in that little town. I myself had an overwhelming sense
of sharing; a feeling as if I had gone back home again after a long absence and
found the people I had loved and hated just as I had left them. Indeed, the whole
book gave me that cosy thrill of satisfaction such as one feels when the stranger
one has been rather nervously waiting to meet turns out to be an old and warm

friend.

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I leave to the professional reviewers the task of discussing the plot and the
characters and the literary merit and all that. But I must mention one more thing
that pleased me no end, and that is the utter unpretentiousness of Mrs. Cormack’s
style of writing. She knows what to leave out just as a good teacher knows what
not to teach. And furthermore, she knows how to be intimate with her characters
without being personal. She evidently does not believe, as so many of our modern
writers do, that to draw a character one must strip him down to the bare bones,
leaving him naked to the point of stark indecency without a shred of privacy.

All in all, Local Rag left me with a good taste in my mouth, or wherever my
literary taste buds are located.

As soon as I finish this copy I am going to curl up in my own little corner,
throw the afghan over my knees and read Mrs. Cormack’s book all over again
from cover to cover.

BANFF SCHOOL WINS H. M. TORY AWARD

The University of Alberta Banff School of Fine Arts has
been awarded the Henry Marshall Tory Award for outstanding
service to the Canadian community in the field of Adult
Education, according to word received by the University.

The award, sponsored by the Canadian Association for
Adult Education, was established three years ago. Presentation
this year was made by Dr. C. £. Phillips, Chairman of the
Executive Committee of the Association, and received on
behalf of the School by Mr. Charles F. Comfort, Associate
Professor in the Department of Art and Archaeology of the
University of Toronto and instructor at the Banff School in
recent summer art courses

In his remarks, Dr Phillips paid tribute to the great con-
tribution of the Banff School to the development of the Fine
Arts throughout Canada, and referred particularly to the work
of the Director, Mr. Donald Cameron, over the past fifteen
years.

Also honoured at the dinner attending the meeting was
Dr E. A Corbett, former Director of Extension at the Univer-
sity of Alberta, and now retiring after long service as Director
of the Canadian Association of Adult Education

Dr J Roby Kidd, who replaces Dr. Corbett as Director of
the CAAE, announced that the H. M. Tory Award this yeor
would take the form of a painting which will be forwarded to
the Banff School shortly.

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Whiskeyjack . .

Whiskeyjack has a rather tough worm to chew on:

“President Stewart stated that there are fewer scholarships available
in Canada than in any other English-speaking country. Basing his
statements on 1948-49 figures, he said that only eight percent of Canadian
students were attending university on scholarships, while in Great
Britain the figure was 74 percent and in Australia 58 percent”—and fees
are going up.

* * * * * *

“There are fewer scholarships avatlable in Canada than in any other English-
speaking country. Only eight percent of Canadtan students attend university on
scholarships, while in Great Britain the figure is 74 percent and in Australia 58
percent—AND FEES ARE GOING UP.”

* * * * * *

“Only eight percent of Canadian students attend university on
scholarships, while 74 percent of the students in Great Britain and 58
percent of those in Australia receive this help—-AND FEES ARE GOING
UP.”

* * * * * *

“Fees are going wp—and only eight percent of the students
in Canada are assisted by scholarships while 74 percent of
those in Britain and 58 percent of those in Australia are
scholarship winners.”

* * * * * *

In Britam 74 percent of the students im untversities are enabled to
attend by scholarships. In Australia, 58 percent. In Canada, 8 percent.
AND FEES ARE GOING UP.’

* * * * * *

“So is the cost of living.”

* * * * * *

“The fees and the cost of living are going up, but
in Canada only eight percent of our students receive
the help of scholarships—in Australia, 58 percent;
in Great Britain, 74 percent. AND THE FEES
ARE....”

* * * * * *

Leave it alone, Jack: that’s not a worm—xit’s a piece of pure gristle.

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N.B.—Friends of the University are those who subscribe five dollars a year
or more to provide scholarships and research facilities, extras, for the University.
They receive The New Trail without further subscriptions.—Ed.

Have you sent your new address to the alumni office?

DEADLINES

Will there be deadlines forever
In this world of rush and speed?
Always be deadlines that never
With calm action can proceed?

Will there be deadlines in heaven,
Or the other place, forsooth?
How we rush six days in seven!

On the Seventh, SPEED, in truth!

Will there be deadlines forever
That we always have to meet?

Dash to work, it’s now or never,
Diverse projects to complete!

Lectures, too, must meet the deadline
With their themes and theses clear;

Church and social whirls design
Deadly deadlines—sometimes drear!

When it’s time to meet Life’s deadline
Grant us then this final prayer:
In that Spirit World benign,
Let there be no deadlines there!

—Myrrtce P. Hartrort.

One of the events of the University year
to which we have come to look forward is the
annual concert of the Mixed Chorus The pro-
gramme this year was a little different, being
made up largely of English folk songs with a
sprinkling of sea chanties and spirituals. The
performance was as lively as it was polished,
revealing again the fine stnging and excellent
direction we have learned to expect from the
chorus. Having sincerely said that we enjoyed
it, may we be forgiven for expressing our per-
sonal disappointment that the programme did
not include more of the larger liturgical and
oratorical works with which the chorus has
thrilled us in other years?

In addition to the usual concerts in Calgary
and Lethbridge the chorus 1s to be heard this
spring tn other Alberta centres: Blairmore,
Medicine Hat, Red Deer, High River, Brooks,
Drumheller and Bonff

The annual concert of the University
Symphony Orchestra, held the week following
that of the chorus, was also highly enjoyable.
This promising organization is rapidly estab-
lishing itself in much the same way that the
chorus has done and deserves to be equally
well known It is a pity that the shortness of
the academic year does not permit more
ambitious use of the talent of these two or-
ganizations,

The Studio Theatre has just completed a busy
and successful season with a fine performance
of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The two princi-
pals, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, were played
by Professor Robert Orchard and Beverly
Wilson The cast also included Eric Candy,

Allen Hood, several high school students and.

a number of children alternated in the parts of
the Macduff children Seats have been sold
out for almost every performance Four special
performances were given for the benefit of
high school students from district centres such

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as Vegreville, Thorhild and Radway. On
April 28th the company took the complete
production, cast, scenery, costumes and all, to
Red Deer for matinee and evening perform-
ances in that city’s new auditorium

Since our last issue the theatre has staged,
besides Macbeth, Anna Christie and a very
successful production of the recent Broadway
hit, The Madwoman of Chaillot. Pians are
now being made for next season A leaflet
has been prepared asking for suggestions as
to what plays should be produced and giving
details of a subscription scheme whereby any-
one interested in the work of the Studio
Theatre may become subscribers for the season.

The Drama Society’s spring presentation of
The Glass Menagerie was distinguished as an
experiment with ‘‘theatre in the round’’, a tech-
nique which is enjoying quite a vogue at the
present time. The idea derives from the Greek
and the Elizabethan theatres where the stage
projected out into the audience, so that the
actors could be viewed from three sides. It
lends ttself to the intimacy of smaller rooms
and relatively smaller audiences The Glass
Menagerie was presented in one of the lounges
of the Students’ Union Building and proved
very interesting both from the dramatic and
the experimental! point of view

Former students of the late Dean G M. Smith
will be interested to know that a considerable
collection of books has been presented to the
university, to be known as the Smith Memorial
Library. After the Dean’s death his students
in History 5 suggested that a fund be raised
to provide a suitable memorial. Former stu-
dents and friends helped to raise a trust fund
to be used to buy books on international af-
fairs. In addition, the late Dean’s heirs pre-
sented his own library to the university. These
and the books purchased from the fund will be

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placed in the library and distinguished by a
special book plate. It is hoped also to have a
picture of the late Dean placed in the history
seminar room in the new library, with a mem-
orial plaque.

Of interest to members of the class of ‘23
is Q note regarding Dr. Harold E. Gray. Dr.
Gray 1s head of the Stored Products Insect
Investigation Unit of the Division of Entomology
in the Dominion Department of Agriculture at
Ottawa. The ‘Sherlock Holmes’ of the De-
partment, he 1s engaged in tracking down flour
moths, spider beetles and other insects which
infest stored grains and to educate indus-
trialists and mill operators in proper sanitation
and insect control. This work came to be of
great importance during the war when grains
shipped to our allies had to be free of in-
festation.

The Alberta Division of the Canadian Cancer
Society has offered to provide $150,000 for
the construction of a new wing to be added to
the present Medical Building at the University
of Alberta for the purpose of housing experi-
mental laboratories for basic research in prob-
lems connected with the study of cancer.
Arrangements for the building were recently
completed between the executive of the Cancer
Society and the university administration fol-
lowing the annual meeting of the society in
Calgary and a recent meeting of the University
Board of Governors in Edmonton.

The provision of the facilities for research
at the University of Alberta ts in line with a
recent decision of the Cancer Society to allocate
funds for research in the various regional medi-
cal centres across the country rather than to
concentrate the study in one place. Thus money
raised by the Alberta Division of the Society
will be used to develop a research centre in
that province.

The new wing will be a one-storey structure
projecting from the rear of the centre portion
of the Medical Building and will accommodate
laboratories, offices, and other facilities, re-
placing a temporary wooden structure now on
the site.

The new building will be known as ‘‘The Dr.
John S. McEachern Concer Research Labora-
tory in the University of Alberta’’ and will
commemorate the contribution made to cancer

research and treatment in Alberta by Dr.
McEachern during his many years as a physi-
cian in Calgary.

Cost of the building is estimated at $80,000
with the balance of $70,000 being allocated
for the purchase of epuipment Of the total
of $150,000 allocated to this project, $50,000
has already been paid to the university and the
balance will be made available within a maxt-
mum of two years.

Funds for the research to be carried on in
the new building will come from such sources
as the National Research Council, the Canadian
Concer Institute, and other research bodies.
Members of the university administration and
of the staff of the Faculty of Medicine have
expressed their great appreciation of the efforts
of the Alberta Division of the Canadian Cancer
Society in stimulating and assisting research in
the problem of cancer at the University of
Alberta.

The 1951 Mud School will be held in the
Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engi-
neering, May 14th to 25th The school offers
Instruction in the principles and practice of
drilling fluid handling and control. The De-
partment will also hold an Oil Treating School
from May 7th to 18th, giving instruction tn the
fteld testing of crude oil and the principles of
treating oil field emulsion.

The thirty-third annual Farm Young Peopie’s
Week will be held June 5th to 13th. Courses
in home economics and home nursing will be
offered for the girls, and boys will hear lectures
in various phases of agriculture. A varied
programme of lectures on subjects of general
interest, to farm boys and girls, films, outings
and social gatherings ts planned Scholarships
and prizes to the value of over $300 will be
awarded on the basis of examinations and
contests held during the week.

The Banff School of Fine Arts will hold its
nineteenth summer session from June 25th to
August 18th. As in other years an excellent
staff has been assembled from all over the
continent. A number of new scholarships are
available this year, details of which may be
obtained from the Extension Department. In
addition to these scholarships the Board of
Governors recently gave final approval to the

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awarding, through the Banff School, of three
medals They are to be known as The Univer-
sity of Alberta National Award in Letters, The
University of Alberta National Award in Music,
and The University of Alberta National Award
in Painting and Related Arts. Purpose of the
awards is to bring about a greater appreciation
of the important part played by the fine arts
in the national life of Canada.

Awards are to be made annually by a com-
mitte of three for each field consisting of one
person nominated by the Governors of the
University of Alberta and two persons nomin-
ated by the appropriate national organization,
the university nominee to be the executive
officer of the committee in each case. The
field of letters will be represented by The
Canadian Authors’ Association, music by the
Canadian Council of Musicians, and painting
and related arts by the Canadian Arts Council.
If, in any year, no suitable candidate appears,
the award will not be made.

Presentation of the medals will ordinarily
take place during the festival week of the
Banff School of Fine Arts each summer, and
will be made by the Chancellor, the Chairman
of the Board of Governors, or the President of
the University. This year, however, the award
in letters is expected to be made at the annual
meeting of the Canadian Authors’ Association
in Banff.

Medals will bear the name of the University
of Alberta, the name of the award, and a suit-
able design on one side, with the other side
providing space for the engraving of the name
of the winner and the date of the award with
the statement that it was presented at the
Banff School of Fine Arts.

Announcement of details of regulations
governing the basts and conditions of the
award will be made later together with the
names of the three panels of judges for the
current yeor.

One of the problems in education apart from
initiating our youngsters to grade schools is the
continuing of education after matriculation.
Judging from the response, Edmonton adults
Gre enthusiastic about the Department of Ex-
tension’s newly inaugurated series of night
courses

Ten courses were offered experimentally this
year in music, French, interior decoration, child

psychology, art appreciation, world affairs,
landscaping, economic problems and commer-
cial law. Staffed almost entirely from among
faculty members, these ten-week courses drew
750 people to the campus weekly.

Particular interest was shown in courses
dealing with the home High lights of the lec-
tures which were illustrated and supplemented
with films and printed material were the lively
discussion periods.

Leadership in rural organizations is passing
into the hands of native born Canadians. These
young men and women have not the advantage
of such a varied background of experience as
their pioneer forebears, who were the first
leaders in their communities.

To assist the younger leaders the uni-
versity organized a short course in rural leader-
ship last fall This was held at the Banff
School of Fine Arts, and generous help was
forthcoming tn planning, financing and in-
structing from the Alberta Wheat Pool, the
United Grain Growers, the FUA, and the
UFA Central Co-operative.

Instruction was given and the principles
applied through practice in the conduct of
public meetings, public speaking, planning the
activities of a local group, publicity, and the
requirements and obligations of leadership.

Those who attended the course already ap-
pear to be putting their training into practice:
every participant has addressed one or more
groups at home. A questionnaire circulated
among the students brings out the fact that
many have since accepted office in their local
club. an unexpectedly large proportion have
accepted the responsibility of contributing
articles to their local newspapers. All feel
they have gatned confidence, endorse this type
of course, and recommend its repetition for the
benefit of others.

The Department of Extension offered two
short courses this spring. A refresher course
In sanitary inspection was held April 23rd to
27th and a short course for purchasing agents
from March 12th to April 16th. The latter
course was designed for purchasing agents and
those engaged in procuring and buying com-
modities in bulk Instructors were Professor J.
D. Campbell, professor of accounting, Hu

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Harries, economic consultant, and Dean W. F.
Bowker of the Faculty of Law.

The Joseph Dolson Oliver Mothersill Mem-
orial Scholarship for 1950-51 has been won
by Michael Brian O'Byrne, former president of
the Students’ Union.

The award, valued at $150, is made annually
to a student ‘‘selected for outstanding contri-
bution to student life in the university, especi-
ally through good citizenship and active sup-
port of student government’. Members of the
Students’ Union cast votes for the candidate at
the time of the elections in March each year,
and the results of the voting are examined by
a faculty committee established for the purpose.

The Mothersill Scholarship was established
in 1918, the donors being Mr. Mothersill’s
widow, now Mrs. Alfred Chard, and Mr. Chard,
to commemorate Mr. Mothersill’s contribution
to the establishment of student government
at the University of Alberta. He graduated in
arts in 1916 and in law following service in
the R.C A. in World War |. Mr. Mothersil
was president of the University of Alberta
Alumni in 1922 and in 1925 was president
of the Chamber of Commerce in Edmonton
where he was a member of the law firm of
Mothersill and Dyde until shortly before his
death in 1933.

This year’s winner of the award, Mr. Michael
O'Byrne, was born in Seattle, Washington, but
received his early education in Edmonton. After
two years of service in the Canadian Navy he
entered the University where he will graduate
this year in law. Mr. O'Byrne was active in
student government as an undergraduate and
in 1950 was elected president of the Students‘
Union, a post which he filled with distinction
until his retirement fast month, when he was
succeeded by Peter Lougheed of Calgary.

Mr. O'Byrne is married with three children
and now resides at 10822 70th Avenue, Ed-
monton.

Robert Buck, son of Mrs, F. J. Buck of 9244
136th Street, Edmonton, has been awarded a
scholarship and a fellowship at the University
of Cincinnati for the 1951-52 session. Mr.
Buck graduated in honours classics from the
University of Alberta in 1949 and received
the degree of M.A. in 1950 from the University
of Kentucky. Last year he was awarded a

graduate fellowship at the University of Cin-
cinnati where he is proceeding to the degree of
Ph.D. in classics. Word has just been received
here of a further award of a fellowship for the
coming academic session in the amount of
$1,000 to which has been added a scholarship
providing remission of all tuition fees at Cin-
cinnati University.

Another student in honours classics at the
University of Alberta has just been awarded a
graduate fellowship at the University of Cali-
fornia. Miss Aphrodite Baracos, daughter of Mr.
Constantin Baracos of Banff, Alberta, and a
member of this year’s graduating class at the
University of Alberta, has just received word
that she has been awarded the Dr Benjamin
P. Wall Memorial Scholarship in Classics, at
the University of California, Berkeley The
scholarship provides $850 for the successful
candidate

Five distinguished Canadians will be honoured
by the University of Alberta this year in three
Convocatton ceremonies, two to be held in May
and the third in October. The University
Senate at a recent meeting approved the con-
ferring of the honorary degree of Doctor of
Laws on five men distinguished in the fields
of education, business, letters, and public
service.

On May 16 Dr. R C Wallace, principal of
Queen’s University and former president of the
University of Alberta, will be honoured to-
gether with Dr G. D Stanley of Calgary. On
May 17 Mr. F G Winspear, prominent Ed-
monton business man and president of the
Canadian Chamber of Commerce, will receive
the degree. The Fall Convocation, scheduled
for October 20, will be the occasion for the
awarding of honorary degrees to Mr. L. A
Thurber of Red Deer and Mr. F. G Roe of
Victoria, British Columbia.

Principal Wallace, born in Orkney, Scotland,
and educated in the Universities of Edinburgh
and Gottingen, has long been a Jeader in the
field of higher education in Canada. From
1910 to 1928 he was a member of the staff
of the University of Manitoba, where he held
the position of professor of geology. In 1928
he came to the University of Alberta as pre-
sident, succeeding Dr. H M. Tory. in 1936
he feft Alberta to become principal and vice-
chancellor of Queen’s University. (Principal

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Wallace will deliver the Convocation address
on May 16)

Dr G D Stanley, born in Exeter, Ontario,
graduated from the University of Toronto in
1901 and has long practised medicine in
southern Alberta. From 1913 to 1921 Dr.
Stanley was a member of the Provincial Legis-
lature and from 1930 to 1935 he served as a
member of Parliament Dr Stanley has been
a member of the Board of Governors of Mount
Royal College in Calgary since its inception
and has for many years held the chairmanship
of the Board From 1940 to 1945 he served
as a member of the Board of Governors of the
University. He was made a life member of
the Canadian Medical Society in 1950.

Mr. F G Winspear, head of the Accounting
firm of Winspear, Hamilton, Anderson & Co,
of Edmonton, Vancouver, Calgary, and Grande
Prairie, was born tn Birmingham, England, but
received his early education in Calgary Mr.
Winspear has served the University of Alberta
In many capacities since he first joined the
staff as instructor in accounting in 1930 Dur-
ing his tenure on the university staff he did
much to organize the teaching of accounting
and to establish the School of Commerce. In
1942 he was a member of the University
Survey Committee set up to study the organ-
ization of the University’s legislative and ad-
ministrative bodies and to make recommenda-
tions to the Government for changes which
were incorporated in the University Act of that
year Since hts retirement as professor of
accounting tn 1949, Mr. Winspear has led a
campaign to provide for the furnishings of the
new Students’ Union Building on the campus.
Last fall he was elected to the presidency of the
Canadian Chamber of Commerce Mr Win-
spear will deliver the convocation address on
May 17.

Mr. L. A’ Thurber was born in Freeport,
Nova Scotia, and after distinguished service
with the Royal Canadian Regiment in the First
World War he graduated from Acadia Univer-
sity in 1922. Since that time he has served as
school principal, inspector, and superintendent
of schools in a number of Alberta school divi-
sions In 1938 he organized the Berry Creek
School Division near Hanna and later he helped
organize the Acadta and Sullivan Lake Divi-
sions After moving to Red Deer in 1936 he
organized the Rocky Mountain Division in 1937

and the Red Deer Division in 1939. In 1947
he organized the Composite School at Red
Deer where he is still active.

Mr F G Roe was born in Sheffield, England,
and came to Alberta, then part of the North
West Territories, in 1894. At the age of
eighteen he took up a homestead and in 1909
he joined the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in
Edmonton, retiring in 1943 after many years
service as an engineer. Mr. Roe has long been
a student of the history of Western Canada
and has achieved high distinction in that field
He 1s the author of many learned articles on
the early life on the great plains and has been
a contributor to such journals as Antiquity,
Canadian Historical Review, and Transactions
of the Royal Society of Canada. His greatest
interest has been in the North American
buffalo and his book on that subject will be
published shortly by the University of Toronto
Press with the support of the Social Science
Research Counci! of Canada. Mr. Roe now
lives in Victoria, British Columbia. He will
deliver the convocation address at the Foll
Convocation.

Dr A G McCalla, Professor of Plant Science
at the University of Alberta, was appointed to
the post of Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture
at a meeting of the Board of Governors held on
Wednesday, April 11. He will succeed Dr. R.
D. Sinclair, who died in September of last year.

Dr McCalla graduated from the University
of Alberta in 1929 with the degree of Bachelor
of Science in Agriculture and won his Master’s
degree there in 1931. Two years later he re-
ceived the degree of PhD from the Univer-
sity of California in the field of plant physi-
ology From 1932 to 1940 he served as Re-
search Assistant for the Associate Committee
on Grain Research of the National Research
Council of Canada. In 1939-40 Dr. McCalla
carried on advanced graduate study at the
University of Upsala in Sweden in the field of
protein chemistry.

In 1941 Dr McCalla was appointed Pro-
fessor of Field Crops at the University of Alberta
and assumed direction of the enlarged Depart-
ment of Plant Science in 1944, Last year Dr
McCalla was appointed to membership in the
National Research Council of Canada, suc-
ceeding Dr. Robert Newton, former President

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of the University, as the representative for
Alberta on the Council.

Dr. McCalla is married with three children
and lives at 11455 University Avenue, in
Edmonton.

The Board of Governors at a meeting held
on Wednesday, April 11, approved a number
of appointments and promotions to take effect
this year.

Dr. J. W. Macgregor, Professor of Pathology
was appointed head of the department to
succeed Dr. J. J. Ower, who will retire from that
post in August of this year. Dr. Macgregor
will also hold the post of Provincial Pathologist
in the Provincial Laboratory of Public Health
where he now serves as Assistant Pathologist.

Professor F. M. Salter, member of the
English Department here since 1939, was pro-
moted to the post of head of the Department
succeeding Dr R K_ Gordon, who retired last
year,

Dr. H. B Mayo was promoted to the rank
of Professor of Political Science in the Depart-
ment of Political Economy Mr E J Hanson,
Assistant Professor of Political Economy, will
act as Administrative Officer of the Depart-
ment.

Mr. G. E. Myers, who has been on leave of
absence since 1949 studying for the degree of
PhD at McGill University, was reinstated with
the rank of Assistant Professor of Bacteriology.
He will also serve as Assistant Bacteriologist in
the Provincial Laboratory of Public Health

“Promotions to the rank of Associate Pro-
fessor include Dr. S G Davis in chemistry,
Mr. R S Eaton in fine arts (music), Dr. RG.
H. Cormack in botany, Mr A M = Mardiros in
philosophy, Dr. D B Scott in physics, Mr. L G
Thomas in history, Mr. A. WE. Erikson in
physical education, Mr J. W. Gregg in petro-
leum engineering, Mr. LE. Gads in civil en-
gineering, and Mr B T= Stephanson in agri-
cultural engineering.

Promotions from the rank of lecturer to that
of assistant professor were approved for Mr.
D. D. Campbell in the Department of Exten-
sion, Mr. RH. Knowles in plant science
(horticulture), Dr D Spearman in psychology,
and Dr. T. R. Clarke, Dr. R. H. Horner, and Dr.
A_ H. MacLennan, all three on the clinical staff
of the Department of Obstetrics and Gyne-
cology. In the same department Dr. Margaret
M Hutton and Dr. S S. Parlee were promoted
from the rank of instructor to that of lecturer.
Other promotions to assistant professor include
Mr. S. R. Sinclair in civil) engineering, Mr.
David Panar in mechanical engineering, and
Miss Bertha M. Newton of the Faculty of
Education (Calgary Branch).

The opening of the Rutherford Library and
the resignation of certain members of the
present library staff called for a number of
new appointments. Mr B Peel, now of the
library staff in the University of Saskatchewan,
was appointed to the position of chief cata-
loguer, succeeding Miss Helen Farquharson,
who resigned this year because of ill-health
Miss Melba Morrison and Mr. JE. Dutton,
both of Toronto, have been named library
assistants in the reference and circulation de-
partments Al three are graduates of the
University of Toronto Library School. Miss
Caroline B. Hicks, now a member of the staff
of the Fraser Valley Regional! Library of
Abbotsford, B C , and a graduate of the Library
School of McGill University, will serve as cata-
loguing assistant Miss Dorothy Ryder, a
member of this year’s graduating class of the
McGill School, has been appointed assistant in
the circulation department. Miss Marjorie A
Bartle, library assistant, has resigned as of June
30 this year, to take a position with the Cape
Breton Regional Library.

In the Department of Anatomy, Dr. K W
Ward has been appointed sessional demon-
strator for eight months of the 1951-52 aca-
demic year. Dr R C. Harrison of Toronto
will take up his duties as instructor in clinical
surgery here on July 1 next.

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For information re Alumni Association dues see page 4.

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19
Cecil T. Topp of 3848 West 16, Vancouver,
1s district supervisor of the Plants Products
Division of the Dominion Department of Agri-
culture in that city.

‘21

Word received from Rev. S. Bainbridge in
England tells us that he quite recently moved
to Maryport in Cumberland County, and thot
he ts finding life near the Lake District very
pleasant

John Boyd is practising law in Calgary with
office at 70 Union Building

'23
Elsie Mulholland of 143 Glengrove Avenue
West, Toronto, writes that she has been on the
staff of Weston Collegiate and Vocation School
at Weston since 1924.

‘24
H. E. Balfour is Director of School Adminis-
tration here in Edmonton

Charles E. Ruddy is now organizer and gen-
eral manager of Recco Ltd of North Bay,
Ontario They are bottlers and distributors of
Propane gas, and distributors of Cooler Refri-
geration Equipment. Mr. Ruddy has three
daughters and one son

Keith B. Tester, assistant manager of the
Lihue Sugar Plantation Company in Hawan
since 1946, has succeeded Caleb £. S Burns
as manager of the company

‘25
Mrs. J. E. Hurst, nee Agnes McFarland, is
on the staff of the University of British Colum-
bia
Robert B. Simmons, who 1s practising law in
Edmonton, has his offices at 411 Alexandra
Block.
'26
Marian Gimby, a teacher at Eastwood High
School in Edmonton, was declared president of
the Alberta Teachers’ Association at its an-
nual meeting.
‘27
Engineer Alexander F. McPherson is em-
ployed with Canadian Westinghouse Company
in Hamilton, Ontario.

Alumni Notes

« «

‘28
Mox Wershof 1s now back in Ottawa with
the Department of External Affairs after living
in England for some time.

In a note from Mrs. S. A. Morris, nee Evelyn
L. Shlain, she tells us that she married a McGill
graduate in medicine, that she has two boys,
and is living at 11956 Foxboro Drive, Los
Angeles 49, Caltfornia.

“30
Harold S. Hicks of Atikokan, Ontario, is
with the Steep Rock Iron Mine Limited at Steep
Rock, Ontario

Dr. J. Lyle Wyatt is chairman of the School
Board at Medicine Hat, Alberta.

Mrs, ©. Wooding, nee Margaret Sellhorn,
lives at Redcliff, Alberta. She frequently does

substitute teaching at Alexandra Composite
High School in Medicine Hat, Alberta.

‘32

R. W. Ryan of Vancouver was appointed
vice-president of Canadian Pacific Airlines just
recently Mr. Ryan, who has been associated
with the company since 1941 has been execu-
tive assistant to the president since 1949.

Edythe Souch teaches home economics at
Alexandra Composite High School in Medicine
Hat, Alberta

One busy alumna who took time out to
write us a note is Mrs. Gordon W. Nairn, nee
Evelyn | Cooper. She is the personnel dietitian
at Vancouver General Hospital, besides being
the mother of two young sons

Dr. William C. Howells, who has been asso-
ciated with McColl-Frontenac Ol Company
Limited and Texaco Exploration Company since
1940, is now chief landman with the latter.

Harry J. Hargrave ‘32 and Mrs. Hargrave
‘33, nee Joan R. McElroy, live with their two
daughters, Barbara and Lorna, in Lethbridge,
where Mr. Hargrave is head of the Animal
Husbandry Department of the Dominion Ex-
perimental Station

‘34

Robert L. Hewitt is now in Bakersfield, Cali-
fornia, os chief geologist with Trico Oil and
Gas Company

"35
Alexander F. Buchanan ‘35 and Mrs.
Buchanan and young son, Douglas Fraser, live
at Cumberland, BC, where Mr. Buchanan is
chief of the Exploration Department of Cana-
dian Collieries (Dunsmuir) Limited.

William J. Seflhorn is assistant manager of
Dominion Glass Works at Redcliff, Alberta He
resides in Medicine Hat. Mes. Setlhorn ‘36,
nee Ruth Sheldon, is the daughter of the late
Dr. Sheldon.

‘36

Group Captain M. P. Martyn of the RCAF.
and formerly of Ottawa, is now Air Staff
Officer at North West Air Command in Ed-
monton Mrs, Martyn ‘36 1s the former Eva
Johnson.

Plant engineer for Julius Kayser and Com-
pany Limited in Montreal, Robert B. McRae,
lives ot 516 A King Street West, Sherbrooke,
PQ.

"37

Dr. Stanley C. T. Clerke, now a member of
the Faculty of Education at the University of
Alberta, was previously on the staff of Cali-
fornia State Polytechnic College

R. E. Gaunce ‘37 and Mrs. Gaunce ‘36, nee
Irene L Barnett, live at 10950 80 Avenue,
Edmonton. Mr Gaunce has been appointed
sales supervisor of Western Division of Ciba
Company Limited

Double honors have come to Mex Tofield
Rogers in his United States post He has been
accorded distinction in the field of atomic re-
search and appointed by the United States
Atomic Energy Commission to head a research
project at Michigan State College. Further,
Sigma Xi fraternity on the Michigan campus
has given him its junior research award for the
most outstanding research of the year at the
college. The proyect Mr. Rogers will head in-
cludes the study of metals and their compounds
by the use of radio-active tracers.

‘38
Norma E. Freifield was elected president of
the Edmonton branch of the Alberta Literary

Association at its annual meeting. She suc-
ceeds Blanche Giffen ‘22.

Rev. George W. Spady is pastor of Memorial
United Church at Medicine Hat and superin-

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tendent of the church’s rural work in that
vicinity.

Charles E. Morris, admitted to the British
Columbia bar tn 1945, 1s now a partner in
the firm of Sutton, Braidwood and Morris. The
Morrises have two children.

39
Thomas F. Rieger teaches at the Picture
Butte High School in the Lethbridge School
Division

John K. McMillan, former sales engineer of
Union Tractor in Calgary, 1s now president of
Northwest Seismic Surveys Limited in that city.

Agriculturist J. £. Hawker, formerly instruc-
tor in botany and horticulture at the Vermilion
School of Agriculture, has been named principal
of the new agricultural school at Fairview,
Alberta

Alan Gunter is proprietor of the Gunter Con-
struction Company at Medicine Hat

Rev. Robert S. Christie was newly appointed
assistant secretary for western Canada by the
board of evangelism and social service of the
United Church of Canada.

Brad Gunn received his Doctor of Philosophy
degree tn the spring of 1950 and is now doing
research work at Suffield, Alberta.

Dr. Peter H. Koziek is taking a post grad-
uate course in Ophthalmology in Toronto. He
hopes to be back in the ‘‘good old West’ in
about two and a half years’ time

Dr. Matthew Davis is one of the associated
physicians comprising the Medical Arts Clinic
at Medicine Hat

‘A0

Graduate in agriculture, Alexander C, Pat-
terson is superintendent of the City of Edmon-
ton Parks Department

One of the top animal geneticists in Canada,
Dr. Elwood W. Stringam, of the University of
Manitoba, has been appointed professor in
animal husbandry at the Ontario Agricultural
College tn Guelph, Ontario.

‘Al
Maxine W. Bow is with the Victorian Order
of Nurses in Medicine Hat, Alberta
Eric H. Smith 1s general insurance agent
with Independent Insurance Exchange Limited
in Edmonton, with offices in the Agency Build-
Ing

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‘42
William T. Cutt is the winner of the annual
!ODE book prize award for hts novel "A
Question’. Mr Cutt ts an instructor in the
Provincial Correspondence Branch of the De-
partment of Education, Edmonton.

Herbert T. Coutts recently received his doctor
of philosophy degree and Allan A. Dixon ‘45
his master of science degree in dermatology
and syphilology at the University of Minnesota.

Gorden Sissons 1s manager of the Medicine
Hat Brick and Tile Company in Medicine Hat,
Alberta.

‘43

Dr. Victor Samuels, who has been on the
staff of the Children’s Memorial Hospital in
Montreal has accepted an appointment to the
pediatrics staff of Bellevue Hospital in New
York Following a year at Bellevue, Dr. Samuels
will work at the John Hopkins University Hos-
pital under Dr. Leo Kanner, chief of the De-
partment of Child Psychology.

Arthur Filmer is at present instructing at the
Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario.

C. H. Templeton is with the Greater Winni-
peg Dyking Board with offices at 221 Osborne
Street, Winnipeg

Henry Allergoth in addition to his job as
teacher of dramatics at the Composite High
School in Medicine Hat, is also the proprietor
of Flath’s store, amusement hall and boating
headquarters at Elkwater Lake.

‘A4

Dr. Donald LaZerte ‘44 and Mrs. LoZerte
‘42 (nee Mary B Mason) are living in St. Paul,
Minnesota, where Don is with the Minnesota
Mining and Manufacturing Company. The La-
Zerte’s had a new son, Wayne, last August 3,
1950.

We received a very newsy note from Mrs.
Robert B. Ferguson (nee Margaret 1. Warren)
recently She and her husband are in Eng-
land, where Mr Ferguson is doing research
work at Cambridge University. She tells us
they spent the last summer cycling in parts of
England, Holland, Belgium and Ireland. It
sounds to us extremely interesting.

‘45
Dr. A. P. Hughes (nee Pauline Gould) has
been on staff at the Provincial Mental Hos-
pital in New Westminster for the past two
years.

Robert R. Buckley is a captain with the
Royal Canadian Army permanent force. At
Present he is Officer Commanding the Works
Detachment of the Royal Canadian Army in
Ottawa

‘46

Richard E. Harris of 8B. A Oil Company has
been transferred to Edmonton

Eileen Kennedy, previously at Ottawa, 1s now
Statistician with the Department of Public
Health in Edmonton

‘a7
Marguerite Lambert has gone to Ann Arbor,
Michigan, as a sterords chemist tn the new
Allergy Research Laboratory of the post grad-
uate Internal Medicine Department of the
Michigan University Hospital.

‘48
Donald M. Shier is with the Exploration De-
partment of the Stanolind Oil and Gas Com-
pany in Calgary.
‘ag
Donald Duff has been appointed public rela-
tions director at the Vancouver General Hos-
pital He was formerly on the editorial staff
of the Vancouver Daily Province after returning
from Columbus University in New York where
he took his MS degree in journalism.

Elizabeth B. Walker last year graduated with
a Bachelor of Library Science degree from
McGill University and is now on the staff of
the Vancouver Public Library.

Elizabeth A. Donald has been awarded a re-
search fellowship in home economics at Wash-
ington State Coilege.

On staff of the Alexandra Composite School
in Medicine Hat are J. K. Armstrong ‘49 and
Watcil Bolick ‘48.

Mr. John Weeks ‘49 and Mrs. Weeks ‘48
(nee Lucy Gainer) are living in Fargo, North
Dakota, where Mr. Weeks is on the staff at
North Dakota State College Mr Weeks was
appointed assistant professor in electrical en-
gineering.

Julie Hrapko is with the Plant Products Divi-
sion of the Department of Agriculture in
Ottawa as a microanalyst.

‘50
Emily M. Spence, a 1950 graduate in honors
chemistry, has been awarded a resident grad-

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uate fellowship by Bryn Mawr College, Penn-
sylvania, where she is studying for a master
of arts degree.

Cecil Sangster is Vice-Principal of the Mon-
treal Street School in Medicine Hat, Alberta.

Dr. Albert Soklofsky has set up a practice
in Medicine Hat, Alberta

Evelyn Macdonald has returned to Medicine
Hat to resume her teaching in Elm Street In-
termediate School after a term as exchange
teacher in New Brunswick.

Lyle Flynn is articling with J. C. Miller,
chartered accountant at Medicine Hat.

‘51
Athlone fellowships for two years’ study in
Britain have been awarded to engineering stu-
dents G. W. Jull and W. J. DeCoursey.

Michael B. O'Byrne, a 1951 graduate in law
has been awarded the Joseph Dolson Oliver
Mothersil! Memortal Scholarship for his out-
standing contribution to student life during his
presidency of the Students’ Union.

MARRIAGES

WALTER L. McNARY ‘51 to Myrtle M Bond

FRANK S. SHERRIFF ‘50 to Patricia Cassidy

WILLIAM T. T. REIKIE ’36 to MARGARET E. KILGOUR ‘38.
DR. LEO F. SPACKMAN ‘44 to Norma Jean Shearer
ARNOLD HENNIG ‘51 to Helen E Bergmann

ALLAN G. NOREM ‘50 to Joyce G Young

Frank L_ Bernstein to SONIA M. SHEPTYCKI ‘50

Roy G Chapman to ALICE M. REA ‘38

DEATHS

MRS. CLARENCE D. MOFFATT ‘27 (nee Dorothy Selfridge
Young) on August 31, 1950, in Vancouver
HELEN EDITH MacMiILLAN ‘37 on July 24, 1950.

BIRTHS
GADS: To MR. LEONARD GADS ‘39 and Mrs Gads, a daugh-

ter on November 19, 1950
F F Wise and MRS. WISE ‘41 (nee CHRISTINE

WISE: To Mr

VAN DER MARK) a daughter, Dorothy Maud, on Novem-

ber 3, 1950
SHORTLIFFE: To

DR. ERNIE SHORTLIFFE ‘41

ond MRS.

SHORTLIFFE, a son, Delbert, in January, 1951.

NEILSON: To DR. J. W. NEILSON ‘41 and Mrs Neilson, o
son, John Arthur, on March 17, 1951

SANDEN: To MR, E. J. SANDEN ‘46 and Mrs Sanden, a son,
Thomas Andrew, on March 22, 1951.

TOOGOOD: To DR. J. A. TOOGOOD ‘41 and Mrs. Toogood, a
son, Roger William, on March 27, 1951

GAIN: To DR. E. A. GAIN ‘40 and MRS. GAIN ‘35 (nee Effie
D Dunn), a son, Robert Howard, on March 26, 1951.

BELL: To DR. R. EDWARD BELL °42 ond Mrs. Bell, a son, on

April 2, 1951

RYAN: To MR. AYLMER A. RYAN ‘39 and Mrs. Ryan, a
daughter, Synthia Kathleen, on April 4, 1951

HARVIE: To MR. DONALD S. HARVIE ‘45 and MRS. HARVIE
‘A4 (nee Mary Soper), a daughter, Dorothy Janet, on

March 16, 1951.

59

NEWS .... from the branches

Medicine Hat

The combined social and business meeting
at which President Stewart of the University of
Alberta was the guest of honor came off as
scheduled on February 6, at 8 15 pm. Guests
were received and introduced to the President
by Mr and Mrs. B F. Souch and Dr. and Mrs.
Lyle Wyatt

A short business session resulted in the
election of the following new officers: Presi-
dent, Dr J L Wyatt; Vice-President, Mr. B
F Souch, Secretary, Mrs, Isabelle Sissons;
Treasurer, Miss Jessie Forsyth.

Then the President was introduced and
spoke to the gathering. He stressed the im-
portance of the alumni in relation to the Uni-
versity and told those present something about
the staff, building plans, attendance and finan-
cial problems of the University.

After the President’s address a delightful
musical programme was provided by Miss
Adele Havard and Mr and Mrs. Pedersen. then
lunch, served by the Westminster Church
ladies.

We hear rumors of a garden party the
Medicine Hatters are planning for the latter
part of June We have a pretty good idea
where it ts to take place and we can’t think of
a lovelier spot for it This, we imagine, will
wind up the alumn: activities of this branch for
the 1950-51 season and we think this group
may feel very gratified with what it has accom-
plished Good fuck for 1951-52!

Montreal

We are happy to report that this branch is
taking up the matter of dues with what looks
like a definite purpose It is pretty encourag-
ing to receive cheques from branch treasurers
with accompanying lists They serve a double
Purpose—they help us immensely to keep our
records straight and they help financially.

We hear that the Montrea! graduates had
a meeting during the later winter weeks, at
which some photographs of the Alberta campus
Provided a source of considerable interest.

We hope to hear from you again soon,
Montreal.

The Nurses’ Alumnae Associction

A quite full report from this thriving asso-
ciation 1s on hand. Nearly every month has
some function to record rummage soles, lec-
tures, telephone bridge, banquets, teas, dances,
auction sales and draws. During the year 1950
only July and August were missed. These
nurses seem to have formed the habit of being
busy.

A new executive include Mrs G. Bell, pre-
sident, Mrs H_ Hole, vice-president, Miss S
Anhill, treasurer; Mrs. Kupchenko, recording
secretary, and Miss Fodchuk, corresponding
secretary Besides these there is a social con-
vener, Miss L King; a membership convener,
Miss Peggy Milner, a publicity committee,
Mesdames Steele and Parkman, and a flower
committee, Mrs Payment and Miss Choate.

No wonder this association gets things
done!

Edmonton

Strictly speaking, this does not belong in
this column, but we do want to report that the
Edmonton alumni are by no means neglectful
of their university even if they haven't at the
moment a branch

Over three hundred of them came to a party
at the new Students’ Union Building on May 11
and had a good time. They danced and
visited and seemed to enjoy themselves. The
affair was sponsored by the General Alumni
Association, and we were happy to hear our
guests express their entire satisfaction.

We hear that there are now several alumni
in Edmonton who feel that something ought
to be done about reviving the branch organiz-
ation OK Edmonton, and lead on, Macduff!

Toronto

We have the following account of the
goings-on of this thriving branch from Mrs.
Isobel Stauffer, secretary until very recently.

“On March 17, 1951, approximately 89
couples, members of the Alberta Alumni Asso-
ciation, Toronto Branch, and their friends
joined with the Universities of British Columbia,
Saskatchewan and Manitoba in the annual
Universities of Western Canada Dance held in

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the Crystal Ballroom of the Royal York Hotel,
Toronto. Prior to the dance an informal re-
ception for the U. of A. members and their
friends was held in Hall D, Convention Mezza-
nine Floor. Dr, L. Bradley was in charge of
the Varsity Yell and Song, and the innovation
of large green and gold pennants carried by the
members on the dance floor during this part
of the (program received an enthusiastic
ovation and greatly enhanced the Alberta
showing at the dance

"On Sunday, May 20, from 3.30 to 6.00
pm, the Spring Reunion Tea was again held
at Wymilwood, 84 Queen’s Park. Mr. Fred
Heath, the President, and Mrs. Heath received
the guests, assisted by Dr. and Mrs. L. O
Bradley. Mrs A J V Lehman and Miss Mary
Silverthorne poured tea assisted by servitors:
Miss Anna Fanset, Mrs. A. W. Matthews, Mrs.
Hugh Buchanan, Miss Nellie Salamandick and

Mrs. Isabel Stauffer. This function, attended
by approximately forty-five members and
friends, was convened by Mrs. Jessie Heath,
assisted by Mrs Isabel Stauffer.
“The following officers were elected for
the 1951-52 term
Registrar—Mr J A Tuck, 302 Bay Street,
Toronto
President—Dr. L O Bradley, 90 Snowden
Ave , Toronto.
Vice-President—Mr.
Weston, Ontario.
Secretary—Miss Nellie Salamandick, 191
Oakwood Ave , Toronto.
Treasurer—Mr Clem King,
Street, Toronto
Executive members at large are to be selected
by the incoming executive ‘

Thanks, Mrs
co-operation,

Charles E Stauffer,

10 Adelaide

Stauffer, for your splendid

Have you sent your new address to the alumni office?

SPRING

Earth’s life stream quickens—throbs—
Small roots begin to stir;

Dry seeds, that scattered lie,
Now yawn; and catkins purr.

Quivering branches wake their buds;
Grasses lift bright spears of green;

Twittering birds with restless wings,
Flutter gayly, chirp and preen.

Roots and seeds and grassy spears,
Sunshine, buds, and birds so gay

All contrive to help shy Spring
Carol now her roundelet.

~—Myrtie P. Hartrort.

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“New Addresses

LEES, Dr. J M. ‘38, 11739 91 Avenue, Ed-
monton.

LILLY Helen ‘48, 10733 Saskatchewan Drive,
Edmonton.

McEWEN, Dr. R A ‘39, 106 Forrest Avenue
NE, Atlanta, Georgia.

MILNER, Emily M. ‘47, 10011
Suite 4, Edmonton.

OLSEN, Dr. A A. ‘42,
Edmonton.

SAMUEL, AB. ‘43, 11023 132 Street, Ed-
monton

SMITH, David ‘40, 10945 90 Avenue, Edmon-
ton.

THORSSEN, L. A
Edmonton

HARLOW, M W ‘14, 15 Grenville Avenue,
Kitchener, Ontario.

115 Street,

11528 130 Street,

‘39, 11811 93 Avenue,

GUILD, Dorothy J. ‘46, 9715 106 Street,
Edmonton.
EVENSON, Mr A 8B ‘31 and Mrs Evenson

(nee Marjorie Lundy) ‘30, 9715 106 Street,
Edmonton.

GOVIER, Dr G W ‘45 and Mrs Govier, 11815
93 Avenue, Edmonton

JOHNSON, Vernon ‘49, 10349 92 Street, Ed-
monton.

TAYLOR, RN. ‘48, 529 22 Avenue S.W.,
Calgary.

LILLY, Mr. R. R. ‘50 and Mrs Lilly (nee D
Margaret Taylor) ‘47, 11216 73 Avenue,
Edmonton.

ROOKWOOD, R. Maurice ‘49, 10954 82 Ave-
nue, Edmonton.

ROSE, Dyson ‘39, 21 Wolff Street, Ottawa,
Ontario.

OANCIA, Steve ‘50, 35 Dundurn Street N,
Hamilton, Ontario.

MORTIMER, Dr D. C ‘45 and Mrs Mortimer
(nee Mary K. Robertson) ‘47, Rideau View
PO., Ottawa, Ontario

HNATKO, Stephen |. ‘48, 341 Show Street,
Toronto, Ontario.

BERNARD, Mrs. G W ‘43 (nee Jessie Lind),
11647 77 Avenue, Edmonton

BUCK, Robert J. ‘49, Department of Classics,
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnat:, Ohio.

WALKER, Mr. W. A. ‘46 and Mrs. Walker
(nee Margaret Macleod) ‘43, 8215 31 Ave-
nue NE., Seattle 5, Wash.

IRWIN, Fred P ‘27, 176 Dtnnick Crescent,
Toronto 12, Ontario.

UMBACH, Ronald H.
Street N.W., Calgary.

KASTING, R. ‘46, Science Service Division,
Chemical Laboratories, Ottawa, Ontario.

BARKWELL, Mrs Stewart ‘41 (nee Betty L.
Newman), 271 Waterloo Street, Winnipeg,
Manitoba.

KIDD, Dr. Edward G. ‘43, Ancker Hospital, St.

Paul, Minnesota.

TORRIE, Dr Arthur M. ‘32, North Raynar
Avenue, Joliet, [lhnovs.

LAZARUK, Wilham ‘47, New Salem, North
Dakota.

WARK, Robert Rodger ’44, 12 Ross Road, Bel-
mont, Massachusetts

LEWIS, Dr. John S ‘43, Memorial Center, 444
East 68 St, New York 21.

PORTEOUS, Mr J W. ‘28 and Mrs. Porteous
(nee Alice Bulyea) ‘30, 9212 118 Street,
Edmonton.

STARK, Dr. William J. ‘40, 625 Fort Street,
Victoria, B.C.

MINER, Dr Thelma S ‘42, Box 58, Assiniboia,
Saskatchewan.

METZER, Arthur B. ‘48, Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology, Department of Chemical
Engineering, Cambridge 39, Mass.

MINER, Sydney ‘44, Lynn, Massachusetts.

CHAMBERS, Robert ‘37, 195 4 Street, Shaw-
inigan Falls, P.Q

STEPHENSON, B. H. ‘49, 9343 81 Avenue,
Edmonton.

REDMAN, Donald, L. ‘41, 1623 15 Avenue
W , Calgary.

FILMER, Arthur J.
Kingston, Ontarto.

WALKER, Elizabeth ‘49, 2704 East 4 Avenue,
Vancouver, B.C.

KENNEDY, Eileen ’46, 9922 90 Avenue, Ed-
monton

BUCKLEY, Captain Robert R. ‘45, 60 Mark
Street, Ottawa, Ontario.

‘50, 3715 Centre B.

‘A3, 162 Barrie Street,

62 THE NEW TRAIL

MORRISON, Hugh W. ‘30, c/o CBC Interna-
tional Service, Montreal, P.Q.

NEWHAM, Mrs L. R ‘'29( nee Helen M. Cars-
well), Jarvie, Alberta.

WILLIAMS, Mr Harold E. ‘47 and Mrs Wil-
liams (nee Margaret Marlatt) ‘50, 13 Clinton
Road, Penarth, S Wales.

OBERHOLTZER, J E ‘39, 10980 75 Avenue,
Edmonton.

STUART, Dr. W. R. ‘37, 8718 117 Street,
Edmonton.

MITCHELL, Jack P. ‘42, University High
School, Manual! Training Department, Ed-
monton.

McDONALD, Mrs. Vincent G. ‘37 (nee Vera
Richards), Home Economics Division, Depart-
ment of Agriculture, Legislative Buildings,
Edmonton

WATTS, Mr. and Mrs. A. ‘50, 1905 Mountain
Crescent, Calgary.

LOGAN, D W ‘50, 1012 8 Avenue W., Cal-
gary

FORSTER, J. W
Paulo, Brazil

‘44, Caixa Postal 26-B, Sao

PRIESTLEY, Norman F. ‘16, 442 14 Avenue
N.E., Calgary.

KOZIAK, Dr. Peter H. ‘39, 548 Lawrence
Avenue West, Toronto.

SOLHEIM, Andrew H
Avenue, Vancouver

BROKOVSKI, John C ‘15, 1810 5 Street W,
Calgary

GEESON, John R ‘15, Namao, Alberta.

COULTER, Howard S ‘17, 3660 Cambia Street,
Vancouver, B.C.

FORSTER, Ralph P ‘20, 2500 Q Street N.W.,
Washington, D.C.

BUTCHART, Elwood A
Street, Vancouver, BC.

COLVILLE, Mrs. G. Nelson ‘32 (nee Eunice A.
Voss), 26 Carpathia Crescent, Winnipeg.

NAIRN, Mrs Gordon W ‘32 (nee Evelyn I.
Cooper), 3514 West 16 Avenue, Vancouver,
BC.

BOWDEN, Richard J. ‘38, Apartment 3, 3726
St Catherine Road, Montreal, PQ

McMILLAN, James ‘24, 2710 Marguerite
Street, Calgary

‘14, 920 East 19

'24, 4476 Cartier

THY VICTORY

He is gone with the wind’s outgoing

At the storm’s surcease when the sky’s lost rim
Breaks clear; one strong star showing

Across wide waters a way for him.

But these he loved, the trees and flowers,
Stand dumb, unknowing; still toils the bee;
And field and wood through the lonely hours

Bring sadness to the heart of me.

I too shall go as the light goes yonder

Into the last forgotten deep;

But men may come with hearts grown fonder
Of love and beauty, and minds set free

To seek life’s fleetest mystery,

And we shall not awake from sleep.

Myrt ie P.Hartrort.

you will be dressed
right for the occasion
when you shop for
your holiday apparel
from

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